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Controlled growth of single-crystalline metal nanowires via thermomigration across a nanoscale junction

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Li, Ju
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Abstract
Mass transport driven by temperature gradient is commonly seen in fluids. However, here we demonstrate that when drawing a cold nano-tip off a hot solid substrate, thermomigration can be so rampant that it can be exploited for producing single-crystalline aluminum, copper, silver and tin nanowires. This demonstrates that in nanoscale objects, solids can mimic liquids in rapid morphological changes, by virtue of fast surface diffusion across short distances. During uniform growth, a thin neck-shaped ligament containing a grain boundary (GB) usually forms between the hot and the cold ends, sustaining an extremely high temperature gradient that should have driven even larger mass flux, if not counteracted by the relative sluggishness of plating into the GB and the resulting back stress. This GB-containing ligament is quite robust and can adapt to varying drawing directions and velocities, imparting good controllability to the nanowire growth in a manner akin to Czochralski crystal growth.
Date issued
2019-10-02
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124602
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Journal
Nature communications
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Citation
Xie, De-Gang et al. "Controlled growth of single-crystalline metal nanowires via thermomigration across a nanoscale junction." Nature communications 10 (2019): 1038 © 2019 The Author(s)
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ISSN
2041-1723
Keywords
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, General Physics and Astronomy, General Chemistry

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