Synthesis of Long Silver Nanowires from AgBr Nanocrystals

Emergent methods to synthesize and characterize semiconductor CuO nanoparticles with various morphologies – an overview

“…They are quite attractive as components of electronic devices because many of their physical properties can be controlled through modification of the sizes and shapes of the building blocks [6,7]. To this end, various techniques including the vapor-phase transport, laser ablation, chemical vapor deposition, arc-discharge, template-based, solution-chemistry methods, etc., have been developed to prepare well-aligned 1D nanomaterials [8][9][10][11][12][13]. However, it is still a challenge to develop simple methods for the fabrication of uniform nanomaterials that are cost-effective and allow large-scale production.…”

A novel method for making ZrO2 nanofibres via an electrospinning technique

“…Many unique properties have already been proposed or demonstrated for this class of materials, such as superior mechanical toughness [4], higher luminescence efficiency [5], enhancement of thermoelectric figure of merit [6], and a lowed lasing threshold [7]. In order to obtain these materials, various preparation methods have been developed including arc discharge [8], laser ablation [9], template [10,11], precursor thermal decomposition [12], and other methods [13][14][15]. Recently, we found a new method to produce inorganic nanofibres by using electrospun fibres of polymer/inorganic composite as the precursor [16,17].…”

Controlling synthesis of silver nanowires and dendrites in mixed surfactant solutions

“…To overcome the shortcomings of low quantity and complicated synthetic procedure, many attempts in recent years have been focused on a soft solution-phase approach to synthesizing uniform silver nanowires. For example, silver nanowires have been successfully fabricated by extraction from zeolite pores [16] as well as by reducing AgNO 3 with a developer in the presence of AgBr nanocrystallites [17] or with ascorbic acid in a wet chemical route [18]. Recently, Xia and co-workers have demonstrated a novel polyol process for the large-scale synthesis of uniform silver nanowires in the presence of poly(vinylpyrrolidone) [19,20].…”