Fabrication of very high aspect ratio metal nanowires by a self-propulsion mechanism.
A novel synthesis method of very high aspect ratio metal nanowires is described. The synthesis utilizes a nanoporous membrane as a template and self-electrophoresis as a directed force that continuously push formed nanowires out of the pores in a rate that is identical to the rate of their elongation. As a result, while the pores of membranes are only 6 microm long, the formed nanowires could be more than 100 microm long.
Sharabani
Rona
R
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Reuveni
Saada
S
Noy
Gilad
G
Shapira
Eyal
E
Sadeh
Shira
S
Selzer
Yoram
Y