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Synthesis of silicon nanowires and nanoparticles by arc-discharge in water
Shu-Man Liu1, Mikihiro Kobayashi, Seiichi Sato
1Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1, Koto, Kamigori-cho, Ako-gun, Hyogo 678-1297, Japan. kimura@sci.u-hyogo.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 22, 2005
Abstract:
Si nanowires of diameters 5-20 nm and nanoparticles of approximately 4 nm were synthesized by a simple arc-discharge method in water. The TEM analysis reveals that the growth direction of the observed Si nanowires is parallel to the {111} crystal planes.
