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

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6033-6039

  Zhu, Liangfang ^a   Shen, Xiaoshuang ^a   Zeng, Zhiyuan ^b   Wang, Hong ^a   Zhang, Hua ^b   Chen, Hongyu ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

defects; induced coiling; polythiophene; selective etching; silver nanowires

Indexed keywords

AG NANOWIRES; BENDING ACTION; INDUCED COILING; INTRINSIC DEFECTS; PLANAR SPIRALS; POLY-THIOPHENE; POLYMER FORMATION; SELECTIVE ETCHING; SILVER NANOWIRES; SURFACE LIGANDS; SYMMETRY-BREAKING;

DEFECTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; SILVER;

ETCHING;

EID: 84864261449     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn301096n     Document Type: Article

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