Template-Free Electrochemical Growth of Single-Crystalline Zinc Nanowires at an Anomalously Low Temperature
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Zinc nanowires of serpentine geometry have been grown on conducting plastic and glass substrates in an aqueous electrolyte at an anomalously low temperature of 0 °C by a one-step, template-free electrodeposition technique. These nanowires are of several micrometers long and with a diameter of 20-200 nm. These nanowires are also single-crystalline and found to be coated with a 5 nm thick ZnO shell with an epitaxial relationship to the Zn core.
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