Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanowires

Abstract:

ABSTRACT Silver nanowires have been synthesized by polyol process with ethylene glycol as solvent and PVP as capping agent. The silver nanowires have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and Transmission electron microscope (TEM) techniques. The prepared silver nanowires were found to exhibit face-centered cubic (fcc) structure. The diameter of the prepared silver nanowires have been found to lie in the range of 60 - 80 nm and the length of the wires have been observed to be in the range of 10-20 µm. The I-V characteristics have been carried out to study the conducting behavior of the prepared silver nanowires.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 678)
• Pages: 212-216
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.678.212
• Online since: March 2013
• Authors: Subbaiyan Sugapriya, Rangarajalu Sriram, Sriram Lakshmi
• Keywords: I-V Characteristics, Polyol Process, SEM, Silver Nanowire, TEM

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