Silver nanowires

Zhu JJ, Qiu QF, Wang H et al (2002) Synthesis of silver nanowires by a sonoelectrochemical method. Inor Chem Commun 5 242-244... 

Sun, Y., Mayers, B., Herricks, T. and Xia, Y. (2003) Polyol synthesis of uniform silver nanowires a plausible growth mechanism and the supporting evidence. Nano Letters, 3, 955-960. 

Tao, A. Kim, E Hess, C. Goldberger, J. He, R. Sun, Y. Xia, Y. Yang, P. 2003. Langmuir-Blodgett silver nanowire monolayers for molecular sensing with high sensitivity and specificity. Nano. Lett. 3 1229-1233. 

A. Tao, F. Kim, C. Hess, J. Goldberger, R. He, Y. Sun, Y. Xia and P. Yang, Langmuir-Blodgett silver nanowire monolayers for molecular sensing using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, Nano Lett., 3(9) (2003) 1229-1233. 

Goldys EM, Drozdowicz-Tomsia K, Xie F, Shtoyko T, Matveeva E, Gryczynski I, Gryczynski Z (2007) Fluorescence amplification by electrochemically deposited silver nanowires with fractal architecture. J Am Chem Soc 129 12117-12122... 

Fig. 7.5 (a) Typical SEM image of the nanoscaie with encapsulated, silver nanowires. The insert shows an incompletely drilled tube with a pentagonal cross-section, (b) TEM image of typical silver-carbon nanocables formed after treating at 160 °C for 12 h 5 g starch, 5 mmoi AgN03, pH 4. 

Figure 12.10 Formation of a silver nanowire inside a channel of a short-chain diphenylalanine peptide tube.

The synthesis of conductive metallic nanowires that bridged two microelectrodes separated by a gap of 12-16 im was demonstrated by the growth of a silver nanowire on a DNA template that bridged the gap (Fig. 12.26).92 Short thiolated nucleic acids (12 bases long) were attached to the microelectrodes, and these acted as sticky ends for the hybridization of /.-DNA that bridged the gap. The association of Ag+ to the phosphate groups of the template, followed by their reduction with hydroquinone under basic conditions, resulted in the formation of Ag° nanoclusters on the DNA template. The subsequent enlargement of the Ag° seeds by the catalytic reduction of Ag+ by hydroquinone, under acidic conditions, yielded continuous Ag nanowires with a width of ca. lOOnm. The nanowires revealed nonlinear I—V... 

Kottmann JP, Martin OJF, Smith DR et al (2001) Plasmon resonances of silver nanowires with a nonregular cross section. Phys Rev B 64 235402... 

Figure 2.35. Examples of indentation processes to determine surface hardness. Shown are (a) Vickers indentation on a SiC-BN composite, (b) atomic force microscope images of the nanoindentation of a silver nanowire, and (c) height profile and load-displacement curve for an indent on the nanowire. Reproduced with permission fromNanoLett. 2003, 3(11), 1495. Copyright 2003 American Chemical Society.

Figure 3.4. Electrodeposition of (a) silver nanoparticles and (b) silver nanowires. Reproduced with permission fromJ. Phys. Chem. B. 2002,106, 3339. Copyright 2002 American Chemical Society.

Figure 11.17 A) SEM image of a purified sample of pentagonal silver nanowires. Reprinted with permission from reference [56]. (2002) Amoican...

Figure 11.18 (A) SEM and (B) TEM images of bicrystalline silver nanowires (nanobeams). (C) SEM image of a nanobeam tilted at 65° relative to the electron beam, where its rounded profile is visible (the scale bar only applies to the horizontal axis). (D) TEM image of a microtomed sample of silver nanobeams showing their cross-sectional profile. This image suggests that the nanobeam is bisected by a twin plane parallel to the base. Refrinted with permission from reference [59]. (2006) American Chemical Society.

Figure 11.37 Left (a) TEM image of and (b) schematic diagrams of the Au decahedral core, (c to Q TEM images of Au Ag nanorods and nanowires prepared by addition of various amounts of AgNC to Au cores with microwave heating for 2 min. Right Schematic for growth of silver nanowires from Au decahedral core. Reprinted with permission from reference [97], (2006) American Chemical Society.

Sun, Y. and Xia, Y. (2002). Large-scale synthesis of uniform silver nanowires through a soft, self-seeding, polyol process. Adv. Mater. 14 833-837. 

Giersig, M., Pastoriza-Santos, I. and Liz-Marz, L. M. (2004). Evidence of an aggregative mechanism during the formation of silver nanowires in N,N-dimethylformamide. J. Mater. Chem. 14 607-610. 

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