Non-lithographic techniques for nanostructuring of thin films and bulk surfaces

Laser flash synthesis of graphene and its inorganic analogues: An innovative breakthrough with immense promise

“…Also, there will be a defined window for a particular laser parameter, for example laser fluence, which would provide suitable conditions. Laser processing is emerging as a powerful technique for material manipulation in general [70][71][72][73][74][75] and for carbon materials 76 in particular. Laserbased clean optical techniques therefore seem to have huge application potential for quick and scalable synthesis of impurity free 2D atomic sheets of graphene and its inorganic analogues.…”

Facile synthesis of oleylamine-capped silver nanowires and their application in transparent conductive electrodes

“…[22][23][24][25][26][27] Thanks to research efforts contributed by many groups, several synthetic approaches have been proposed and validated for the fabrication of metallic nanowires with reasonable yields (e.g., template assisted in-plane growth of nanowires, and electric eld assisted growth of nanowires, among others). [28][29][30][31] Compared to physical routes, wet-chemical synthesis exhibited tremendous advantages, such as being template-free, low cost, easy to scale up, and having mild reaction conditions, among others. [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39] Take silver for example: as a pioneer in this eld, Xia and coworkers demonstrated that high-quality Ag nanowires could be obtained by dropwisely adding ethylene glycol solutions of AgNO 3 and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) at an elevated temperature.…”