@article{fa8d6b8e544c46b1a72ec39faf8081df,
title = "Growth of Au/Ag nanowires in thin surfactant solution films: An electron microscopy study",
abstract = "The surfactant templated gold-silver nanowire growth process in a thin solution film was probed by cryo-transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). The increasing surfactant concentration upon film drying appears to induce phase transformations in the film and form a liquid crystalline template for the nanowires growth. High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and electron holography revealed that the nanowires were polycrystalline with some preferred crystallite orientations and had a roughly cylindrical cross-section. Further improvement of the technique may lead to highly ordered metal nanowire arrays within the surfactant matrix similar to the closely related mesoporous materials.",
keywords = "Cryo-TEM, Gold nanorods, Liquid crystal phases, Mesoporous materials, Nanowires, Surfactant mesophases",
author = "Olga Krichevski and Yael Levi-Kalisman and Daniel Szwarcman and Yossi Lereah and Gil Markovich",
note = "Funding Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with Prof. Oren Regev. The Electron Holography study in this work is supported by a Marie Curie project of the European Community.",
year = "2007",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.jcis.2007.05.056",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "314",
pages = "304--309",
journal = "Journal of Colloid and Interface Science",
issn = "0021-9797",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "1",
}