Vapour confinement as a strategy to fabricate metal and bimetallic nanostructures.

ABSTRACT: Metal nanostructures have attracted much attention in biomedical, plasmonic, hydrogen storage, and high-energy battery applications. However, the synthesis of various nanostructures of highly reactive elements (e.g. Mg) is still a difficult task and no single-approach has been reported for synthesizing such nanostructures. In this work, we produced magnesium nanoparticles (NPs), nanowires (NWs) and nanoneedles (NNs) in a single-approach, based on thermal evaporation without any carrier gas. Importantly, we employed rapid heating and cooling via a rapid thermal processing (RTP) furnace to control the nucleation and growth of nanostructures. The testing of Zn and Mg-Zn nanostructures was done to validate our approach and design for other metals and bimetallics. Interestingly, C

SUBMITTER: V S H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9418833 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature