Search results for "Metal nanostructure"
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Metal Displacement Deposition: a facile via to grow metal and metal oxide nanostructures
2010
Nanostructured materials have received increasing attention because of their high chemical reactivity that allows an extensive use in many fields, like catalysis, electrosynthesis, sensors, and so on [1]. Taking into account that size plays a fundamental role for the properties of nanostructures, it is of relevant importance for their applications to develop a facile method of synthesis. In our previous works, we have described a template synthesis of metal nanowires through a simple novel route [2-4]. In particular, using a combination of template deposition and metal displacement reaction, we have fabricated pure metal nanowires with a well-defined morphology. This type of template synthe…
Plenty of motion at the bottom: atomically thin liquid gold membrane
2015
The discovery of graphene some ten years ago was the first proof of a free-standing two-dimensional (2D) solid phase. Here, using quantum molecular dynamics simulations of nanoscale gold patches suspended in graphene pores, we predict the existence of an atomically thin, free-standing 2D liquid phase. The liquid phase, enabled by the exceptional planar stability of gold due to relativistic effects, demonstrates extreme fluxionality of metal nanostructures and opens possibilities for a variety of nanoscale phenomena.
Field- and irradiation-induced phenomena in memristive nanomaterials
2016
The breakthrough in electronics and information technology is anticipated by the development of emerging memory and logic devices, artificial neural networks and brain-inspired systems on the basis of memristive nano-materials represented, in a particular case, by a simple 'metal-insulator-metal' (MIM) thin-film structure. The present article is focused on the comparative analysis of MIM devices based on oxides with dominating ionic (ZrOx, HfOx) and covalent (SiOx, GeOx) bonding of various composition and geometry deposited by magnetron sputtering. The studied memristive devices demonstrate reproducible change in their resistance (resistive switching - RS) originated from the formation and …