title: Graphene oxide-templated synthesis of ultrathin or tadpole-shaped au nanowires with alternating hcp and fcc domains.
abstract: Ultrathin Au nanowires (AuNWs) and tadpole-shaped nanowires are synthesized on graphene oxide (GO) sheet templates. For the first time, 1.6 nm-diameter AuNWs are shown to contain hexagonal close-packed (hcp) crystal domains, and the tadpole-shaped nanowires exhibit alternating sets of hcp and face-centered cubic (fcc) structures, associated with variation in wire thickness.
authors.affiliation: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Shaozhou
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shixin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Yizhong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Freddy
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Boey
authors.forename: Chee Lip
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Gan
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry; D006108:Graphite / Q000737:chemistry*; D053770:Nanowires / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D010087:Oxides / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010087:Oxides; D006046:Gold; D006108:Graphite