In this contribution a simple method has been employed to synthesis silver nanowires by thermal decomposition of silver complexes. Nanowires are the product of possible chemical reduction of metallic silver residue that remains after the thermal degradation process. Silver(I) complexes of quinolone antibacterial drugs sparfloxacin [Ag(SPHX)2·NO3]·3H2O (1) and enrofloxacin [Ag(ENRX)2·NO3]·2H2O (...

The mechanical properties and plastic deformation mechanisms of metal nanowires have been studied intensely for many years. One of the important yet unresolved challenges in this field is to bridge the gap in properties and deformation mechanisms reported for slow strain rate experiments (∼10-2 s-1), and high strain rate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations (∼108 s-1) such that a complete unders...

Stable protein-conjugated silver sulfide nanoparticles, nanorods and nanowires have been prepared by an aqueous chemistry method and the study results showed they had potential applications for tumor treatment.

We investigate the mechanical properties of cantilevered silver-gallium (Ag(2)Ga) nanowires using laser Doppler vibrometry. From measurements of the resonant frequencies and associated operating deflection shapes, we demonstrate that these Ag(2)Ga nanowires behave as ideal Euler-Bernoulli beams. Furthermore, radial asymmetries in these nanowires are detected through high resolution measurements...

For rapid and accurate fabrication of industrial products, the development of effective technique to manipulate and assemble nanomaterials is essential. In the present work, we investigated the dielectrophoretic behavior of silver nanoparticles and nanowires at various driving frequencies and voltage amplitudes, and examined three-dimensional assembly of the nanomaterials using dielectrophoreti...

Laser shock induced lateral compression has been demonstrated to controllably flatten cylindrical silver nanowires. Nanowires with circular cross-sections of diameter 70 nm are significantly shaped laterally, which transformed them to metallic ribbons of huge width of 290 nm and of thickness down to 13 nm, amounting the aspect ratio to as high as 22, at a laser intensity of 0.30 GW cm(-2). Abov...

We demonstrate controlled trapping and manipulation of single silver (Ag) nanowires in two dimensions at a surface using structured light fields generated with a spatial light modulator. The Ag nanowires are attracted toward the regions of maximal optical intensity along the surface when the trapping laser light is linearly polarized and are repelled toward the minima of optical intensity when ...

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We report a mechanistic study of the catalytic effect of Ni(OH)2 on hematite nanowires for photoelectrochemical water oxidation. Ni compounds have been shown to be good catalysts for electrochemical and photoelectrochemical water oxidation. While we also observed improved photocurrents for Ni-catalyst decorated hematite photoanodes, we found that the photocurrents decay rapidly, indicating the ...