Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2015,6, 1272–1280, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.131
Abstract Background: Multicomponent heterostructure nanowires and nanogaps are of great interest for applications in sensorics. Pulsed electrodeposition in ion-track etched polymer templates is a suitable method to synthesise segmentednanowires with segments consisting of two different types of materials
synthesised by electrodeposition in membranes, and are ideal model systems for investigation of surface plasmons.
Keywords: AuAg alloy; cyclic voltammetry; electrodeposition; ion-track technology; nanogaps; segmentednanowires; Introduction
The synthesis of multicomponent heterostructure nanowires is
growth of many different segmented structures combining polymers, semiconductors, and metals, such as Au–TiO2 [11], Au–polypyrrole [22], Cu–Se [23], and Au–Co [24]. While segmentednanowires can be grown by sequential exchange of the electrolyte [8][25][26], it is also possible to use a single
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Figure 1:
CVs using an electrolyte containing 50 mM KAu(CN)2 (blue line), an electrolyte containing 50 mM KAg...
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2012,3, 860–883, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.97
aqueous solvents [102]. Given the extreme versatility of etched ion-track membranes, future electrochemical growth of Si nanowires would allow tuning size parameters and provide interesting freestanding high-aspect ratio Si nano- or microstructures [103].
2.6 Segmentednanowires
Besides synthesizing
technique offers a promising approach by sequential deposition of multi-material-segmentednanowires grown in porous templates followed by selective etching of one of the deposited elements. This variation of the template method is also known as “on-wire lithography” [125]. Recent experiments yielded
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(a) Track-etched membrane illustrating the porosity regime available by means of ion-track technolo...