Nanowires pressure injection method

In the pressure injection method, the nanowires are formed by injecting the desired material in its liquid form into the pores of the template. This technique has been used to fabricate a number of metallic and... 

The smallest diameter attained for bismuth nanowires by the pressure injection method was about 13 nm, using a pressure of approximately 0.3 kbar (Zhang et al., 1999). Finer nanowires might be fabricated by increasing injection pressures (Huber et al., 2000), but it remains to be seen if the anodic alumina templates would retain their structural integrity under those high pressures. 

In contrast to nanowires synthesized by the pressure injection method, nanowires derived electrochemically are typically polycrystalline with no preferred crystal orientation. However, some exceptions occur. For example, polycrystalline CdS nanowires fabricated by ac electrodeposition in anodic alumina were shown to have a preferred wire growth orientation along the c axis (Routkevitch et al., 1996). Recently, Xu et al. (2000a, 2000b) prepared... 

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