Temperature and chemical bonding-directed self-assembly of cobalt phosphide nanowires in reaction solutions into vertical and horizontal alignments

• Main Authors: Zhang, Shuang-Yuan, Ye, Enyi, Liu, Shuhua, Lim, Suo Hon, Tee, Si Yin, Dong, Zhili, Han, Ming-Yong
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97122; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10466
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The preparation of vertically or horizontally aligned self-assemblies of CoP nanowires is demonstrated for the first time by aging them in the reaction solution for a sufficient time at 20 or 0 °C. This strategy opens up a way for exploring the controlled self-assembly of various highly anisotropic nanostructures into long-range ordered structures with collective properties.