Disproportionation for growing copper nanowires and their controlled self-assembly facilitated by ligand exchange

Abstract

The coating makes the wire bundle: High-quality free-standing copper nanowires have been successfully produced by disproportionation of Cu + in oleylamine. This provides an effective way to prepare high-quality copper nanowires, but also enriches synthetic routes to other nanostructures. These copper nanowires can self-assemble by surface ligand exchange of oleylamine with trioctylphosphine. © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.