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Amy L Prieto1, Marisol Martín-González, Jennifer Keyani
1Department of Chemistry and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. alprieto@fas.harvard.edu
Abstract:
Here we report the synthesis of dense arrays of Bi1-xSbx nanowires with >5 x 1010 nanowires/cm2. The individual wires are crystalline, relatively homogeneous, and highly textured in a 110 direction, with diameters of 40 nm and a composition of x = 12-15 atom % Sb. By tuning the solution concentrations and controlling the growth rate by controlling the potential, the composition, crystallinity, and morphology of the nanowires can be varied.
