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ArticleNature communications2020

Nanoparticles suppress fluid instabilities in the thermal drawing of ultralong nanowires.

Injoo Hwang, Zeyi Guan, Chezheng Cao, Wenliang Tang, Chi On Chui, Xiaochun Li

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Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Injoo HwangDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Zeyi GuanDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-9468
Chezheng CaoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Wenliang TangDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Chi On ChuiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Xiaochun LiDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. xcli@seas.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-7722

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) CMMI 1449395
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultra-long metal nanowires and their facile fabrication have been long sought after as they promise to offer substantial improvements of performance in numerous applications. However, ultra-long metal ultrafine/nanowires are beyond the capability of current manufacturing techniques, which impose limitations on their size and aspect ratio. Here we show that the limitations imposed by fluid instabilities with thermally drawn nanowires can be alleviated by adding tungsten carbide nanoparticles to the metal core to arrive at wire lengths more than 30 cm with diameters as low as 170 nm. The nanoparticles support thermal drawing in two ways, by increasing the viscosity of the metal and lowering the interfacial energy between the boron silicate and zinc phase. This mechanism of suppressing fluid instability by nanoparticles not only enables a scalable production of ultralong metal nanowires, but also serves for widespread applications in other fluid-related fields.

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