Ultrafine Single‐Crystalline Gold Nanowire Arrays by Oriented Attachment

• DOI: 10.1002/adma.200602325
• Publication Date: 2007-06-18T17:48:30Z
• Authors: A. Halder; N. Ravishankar
• Keywords: Nanoelectronics

Ultrafine single-crystalline gold nanowires (see figure) are synthesized by oriented attachment of nanoparticles in the solution phase. An amine capping agent is preferentially removed from {111} planes, which causes wires to form fusion along these planes. Such can be used as fundamental building blocks for nanoelectronics, and will enable basic studies on electric transport one-dimensional structures carried out. Supporting information this article available WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2089/2007/c2325_s.pdf or author. Please note: The publisher not responsible content functionality any supporting supplied authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should directed corresponding author article.