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
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102579; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19094
• Institution: 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...