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A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation

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Murph, SEH; Murphy, CJ; Leach, A; Gall, K
Published in: Crystal Growth and Design
April 1, 2015

Electron microscopy studies suggest that silver nanowires prepared by an approach reported earlier by us (Caswell, K. K., Bender, C. M., Murphy, C. J. Nano Lett., 2003, 3, 667-669) form through a coarsening process via an oriented attachment mechanism. Initially, silver nucleation centers were produced by chemical reduction of silver ions in boiling water, with sodium citrate and sodium hydroxide as additives in solution. These nucleation centers, with a twinned crystallographic orientation, ultimately merge into fully grown silver nanowires. This is a completely different mechanism from the seed-mediated growth approach, which has also been used to produce silver nanowires. Companion molecular dynamics performed with the embedded atom method are in agreement with our experimental data.

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Crystal Growth and Design

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1528-7505

ISSN

1528-7483

Publication Date

April 1, 2015

Volume

15

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1968 / 1974

Related Subject Headings

  • Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 3406 Physical chemistry
  • 3402 Inorganic chemistry
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
  • 0302 Inorganic Chemistry
 

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Murph, S. E. H., Murphy, C. J., Leach, A., & Gall, K. (2015). A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation. Crystal Growth and Design, 15(4), 1968–1974. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00123
Murph, S. E. H., C. J. Murphy, A. Leach, and K. Gall. “A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation.” Crystal Growth and Design 15, no. 4 (April 1, 2015): 1968–74. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00123.
Murph SEH, Murphy CJ, Leach A, Gall K. A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation. Crystal Growth and Design. 2015 Apr 1;15(4):1968–74.
Murph, S. E. H., et al. “A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation.” Crystal Growth and Design, vol. 15, no. 4, Apr. 2015, pp. 1968–74. Scopus, doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00123.
Murph SEH, Murphy CJ, Leach A, Gall K. A possible oriented attachment growth mechanism for silver nanowire formation. Crystal Growth and Design. 2015 Apr 1;15(4):1968–1974.
Journal cover image

Published In

Crystal Growth and Design

DOI

EISSN

1528-7505

ISSN

1528-7483

Publication Date

April 1, 2015

Volume

15

Issue

4

Start / End Page

1968 / 1974

Related Subject Headings

  • Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry
  • 4016 Materials engineering
  • 3406 Physical chemistry
  • 3402 Inorganic chemistry
  • 0912 Materials Engineering
  • 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural)
  • 0302 Inorganic Chemistry