Flow‐Enabled Self‐Assembly of Large‐Scale Aligned Nanowires |
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| Authors: | Bo Li Chuchu Zhang Beibei Jiang Dr. Wei Han Prof. Zhiqun Lin |
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| Affiliation: | School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 (USA) |
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| Abstract: | One‐dimensional nanowires enable the realization of optical and electronic nanodevices that may find applications in energy conversion and storage systems. Herein, large‐scale aligned DNA nanowires were crafted by flow‐enabled self‐assembly (FESA). The highly oriented and continuous DNA nanowires were then capitalized on either as a template to form metallic nanowires by exposing DNA nanowires that had been preloaded with metal salts to an oxygen plasma or as a scaffold to direct the positioning and alignment of metal nanoparticles and nanorods. The FESA strategy is simple and easy to implement and thus a promising new method for the low‐cost synthesis of large‐scale one‐dimensional nanostructures for nanodevices. |
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| Keywords: | biotemplates DNA structures nanostructures nanowires self‐assembly |
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