title: A novel method for preparing vertically grown single-crystalline gold nanowires.
abstract: A surfactant-free, template-less and seed-less method, namely the thermal-assisted photoreduction (TAP) process, has been developed to synthesize vertically grown Au nanowires (30-80 nm in diameter and about 2 µm in length) on the surface of thin film titanium dioxide (TiO(2)), which is locally excited by blackbody radiation. The Au nanowires thus produced are single-crystalline with a preferred [Formula: see text] growth direction. The electrical behavior investigated using a nanomanipulation device indicates that the Au nanowires possess an excellent electrical resistivity of about 3.49 × 10(-8) Ω m.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Center for Micro/Nano Science and Technology, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsien-Tse
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Tung
authors.forename: Jenn-Ming
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Yung-Tang
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Nien
authors.forename: In-Gann
authors.initials: IG
authors.lastname: Chen