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- Title
Real‐Time Probing of Nanowire Assembly Kinetics at the Air–Water Interface by In Situ Synchrotron X‐Ray Scattering.
- Authors
He, Zhen; Jiang, Hui‐Jun; Wu, Long‐Long; Liu, Jian‐Wei; Wang, Geng; Wang, Xiao; Wang, Jin‐Long; Hou, Zhong‐Huai; Chen, Gang; Yu, Shu‐Hong
- Abstract
Abstract: Although many assembly strategies have been used to successfully construct well‐aligned nanowire (NW) assemblies, the understanding of their assembly kinetics has remained elusive, which restricts the development of NW‐based device and circuit fabrication. Now a versatile strategy that combines interfacial assembly and synchrotron‐based grazing‐incidence small‐angle X‐ray scattering (GISAXS) is presented to track the assembly evolution of the NWs in real time. During the interface assembly process, the randomly dispersed NWs gradually aggregate to form small ordered NW‐blocks and finally are constructed into well‐defined NW monolayer driven by the conformation entropy. The NW assembly mechanism can be well revealed by the thermodynamic analysis and large‐scale molecular dynamics theoretical evaluation. These findings point to new opportunities for understanding NW assembly kinetics and manipulating NW assembled structures by bottom‐up strategy.
- Subjects
NANOWIRES; X-ray scattering; SYNCHROTRONS; PARTICLE accelerators; ENTROPY
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2018, Vol 130, Issue 27, p8262
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201803552