Preservation of lattice orientation in coalescing imperfectly aligned gold nanowires by a zipper mechanism

• Main Authors: Xu, Jun, Wang, Yawen, Qi, Xiaoying, Liu, Cuicui, He, Jiating, Zhang, Hua, Chen, Hongyu
• 其他作者: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2014
• 主題: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102579; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19094
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Parallel-stacked gold nanowires (NWs) in a ring conformation are induced to coalesce, forming solid seamless rings. The axial lattice orientation of the original Au NWs is preserved in the coalesced rings (see picture; scale bars 2 nm, insets 50 nm). A zipper mechanism is proposed to reconcile the t...