- Temperature and chemical bonding-directed self-assembly of cobalt phosphide nanowires in reaction solutions into vertical and horizontal alignments.
Temperature and chemical bonding-directed self-assembly of cobalt phosphide nanowires in reaction solutions into vertical and horizontal alignments.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) (2012-07-19)
Shuang-Yuan Zhang, Enyi Ye, Shuhua Liu, Suo Hon Lim, Si Yin Tee, Zhili Dong, Ming-Yong Han
PMID22806698
ABSTRACT
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.