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Vol. 2 No. 4 (2010)

Fabrication of Y-junction Metal Nanowires by AAO Template-assisted AC Electrodeposition

https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353857
Huanan Duan
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA
Zhenhai Xia
Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
Jianyu Liang
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA

Corresponding Author: Jianyu Liang

jianyul@wpi.edu

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 2 No. 4 (2010), Article Number: 290-295

Abstract

In this communication, we report a synthetic approach to fabricate Y-junction Co nanowires and Y-junction Cu nanowires by AC electrodeposition using a hierarchically designed anodized aluminum oxide template. Morphology study showe that diameters of the stems and branches of the Y-junction nanowires were about 40 nm and 20 nm respectively. Structural analysis indicates that Co nanowires had a mixture of face-center-cubic and hexagonal-close-packed structures, whereas Cu nanowires had a face-center-cubic structure with a <110> texture. The Y-junction Co nanowires exhibited a longitudinal coercivity of 1300 Oe and remnant magnetization of 56%, which was affected by the growth direction and microstructure. The present method can be extended to other metallic systems and thus provides a simple and efficient way to fabricate Y-junction metal nanowires.

Keywords

AAO template Nanofabrication AC electrodeposition Y-junction metal nanowires Magnetic property
Duan, Huanan, Zhenhai Xia, and Jianyu Liang. 2011. “Fabrication of Y-Junction Metal Nanowires by AAO Template-Assisted AC Electrodeposition”. Nano-Micro Letters 2 (4):290-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03353857.
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