Induced coiling action : exploring the intrinsic defects in five-fold twinned silver nanowires

• Main Authors: Zeng, Zhiyuan, Wang, Hong, Zhu, Liangfang, Zhang, Hua, Shen, Xiaoshuang, Chen, Hongyu
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96599; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10311
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Growth of polythiophene (PTh) on five-fold twinned Ag nanowires (NWs) is not symmetrical due to preferred etching of their intrinsic defects. This imbalance of polymer formation leads to consistent bending action along the etched NWs, coiling the resulting Ag-PTh nanocomposites into planar spirals....