Formation of metal nanowires on suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes
- 6 November 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 77 (19), 3015-3017
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1324731
Abstract
Suspended single-wall carbon nanotubes are used as substrates for deposition of various metals by evaporation. Deposition of many types of metals normally forms discrete particles on nanotubes due to a weak interaction between the metals and nanotubes. However, continuous nanowires of virtually any metal are obtained by using titanium, a metal with strong interaction with carbon, as a buffer layer on nanotubes. The metal nanowires can be ⩽10 nm wide with continuous length up to tens of microns.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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