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

Xiao Huang; Shaozhou Li; Shixin Wu; Yizhong Huang; Freddy Boey; Chee Lip Gan; Hua Zhang

doi:10.1002/adma.201104153

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

Adv Mater. 2012 Feb 14;24(7):979-83. doi: 10.1002/adma.201104153. Epub 2012 Jan 18.

Authors

Xiao Huang¹, Shaozhou Li, Shixin Wu, Yizhong Huang, Freddy Boey, Chee Lip Gan, Hua Zhang

Affiliation

¹ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.

PMID: 22252895
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201104153

Abstract

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-centered cubic (fcc) structures, associated with variation in wire thickness.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Crystallization
Gold / chemistry
Graphite / chemistry*
Nanowires / chemistry*
Nanowires / ultrastructure
Oxides / chemistry*

Substances

Oxides
Gold
Graphite