Characterization of electrodeposited bismuth–tellurium nanowires and nanotubes

Electrodeposition and characterization of Bi/Tl multilayer nanowires

“…The one side of polycarbonate membrane was coated by nearly 100 nm gold layer was employed as a working electrode. Polycarbonate membrane was chosen for their biocompatibility and lower thermal conductivity in compared with alumina templates [4]. The reference and counter electrodes were Ag/AgCl in 3 M KCl and platinum mesh, respectively.…”

Electrochemical synthesis and magnetism of magnetic nanotubes

“…For the fabrication of NTs, the thickness of the metallic contact is tuned to only a few nanometers (depending on the pore diameter), to leave the pore bottom open, forming an annular shape at the pore basis of the template (Pinisetty et al, 2011;Atalay et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2008aXu et al, , 2012Proenca et al, 2012b). For the fabrication of NTs, the thickness of the metallic contact is tuned to only a few nanometers (depending on the pore diameter), to leave the pore bottom open, forming an annular shape at the pore basis of the template (Pinisetty et al, 2011;Atalay et al, 2010;Xu et al, 2008aXu et al, , 2012Proenca et al, 2012b).…”

“…Many authors state that the appearance of gas bubbles in central regions of the pores during the deposition process promotes the material growth along the pore walls, creating tubular shaped structures (Davis and Podlaha, 2005;Fukunaka et al, 2006;Philippe and Michler, 2008;Cheng et al, 2008;Rozman et al, 2009aRozman et al, , 2012Motoyama et al, 2010;Ponrouch et al, 2010b;Pinisetty et al, 2011). Many authors state that the appearance of gas bubbles in central regions of the pores during the deposition process promotes the material growth along the pore walls, creating tubular shaped structures (Davis and Podlaha, 2005;Fukunaka et al, 2006;Philippe and Michler, 2008;Cheng et al, 2008;Rozman et al, 2009aRozman et al, , 2012Motoyama et al, 2010;Ponrouch et al, 2010b;Pinisetty et al, 2011).…”

Fabrication of Π-structured Bi-Te thermoelectric micro-device by electrodeposition

“…Among these methods, electrodeposition has numbers of advantages: deposition selectivity, higher deposition rate, and low-temperature/low-pressure operation [7], etc., and because of these advantages, the electrodeposition of Bi 2 Te 3 is widely studied. The first report was made by Takahashi et al [8], followed by other workers on fabricating thin films [1,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], nanowires and nanotubes [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28], and multilayers [29,30]. Also, electrodeposition of various kinds of thermoelectric materials, such as Sb 2 Te 3 [31], CoSb 3 [32,33] and PbTe [34], etc., have been reported.…”