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Ultrathin Nanowires—A Materials Chemistry Perspective
Author(s) -
Cademartiri Ludovico,
Ozin Geoffrey A.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200801836
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , nanowire , chemical vapor deposition , materials science , perspective (graphical) , field (mathematics) , scale (ratio) , biochemical engineering , yield (engineering) , computer science , physics , engineering , artificial intelligence , metallurgy , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
The recent years have seen an explosive interest in one‐dimensional nanostructures1, as testified by the number of citations this field has accrued; as customary, its blossoming was enabled by chemical breakthroughs that allowed the reproducible and affordable synthesis of such structures.2, 3 The limitations of those syntheses was in the diameter of the nanowires that it could produce (hardly < 10 nm), and in the use of expensive and low‐yield techniques, such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD). This paper attempts to summarize the very recent chemical breakthroughs that have allowed the production of ultrathin nanowires, often in solution, and often in gram‐scale quantities. By no means is this a comprehensive coverage of the field, which can in part be found in other excellent reviews1, 2, 4–6 but a selection of those contributions that we feel would most help put this emerging field in perspective. We will review the various synthetic strategies, their pros and cons, and we will give our best guesses as to the future directions of the field and what we can expect from it.