Graphene oxide-templated synthesis of ultrathin or tadpole-shaped Au nanowires with alternating hcp and fcc domains

• Main Authors: Huang, Xiao, Li, Shaozhou, Wu, Shixin, Huang, Yizhong, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang, Gan, Chee Lip, Zhang, Hua
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97198; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10677
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Ultrathin Au nanowires (AuNWs) and tadpole-shaped nanowires are synthesized on graphene oxide (GO) sheet templates. For the first time, 1.6 nm-diameter AuNWs are shown to contain hexagonal close-packed (hcp) crystal domains, and the tadpole-shaped nanowires exhibit alternating sets of hcp and face-c...