• DOI:10.1039/c5nr05138j
• Corpus ID: 205981514

Promising wet chemical strategies to synthesize Cu nanowires for emerging electronic applications.

@article{RaviKumar2015PromisingWC,
  title={Promising wet chemical strategies to synthesize Cu nanowires for emerging electronic applications.},
  author={Darbha V. Ravi Kumar and Kyoohee Woo and Jooho Moon},
  journal={Nanoscale},
  year={2015},
  volume={7 41},
  pages={
          17195-210
        }
}

• D. R. Ravi Kumar, Kyoohee Woo, Jooho Moon
• Published 15 October 2015
• Chemistry
• Nanoscale

Copper nanowires (Cu NWs) are of particular interest for application as transparent and flexible conducting electrodes in 'see-through' and/or 'deformable' future electronics due to their excellent electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. It is necessary to develop reliable and facile methods to produce well-defined Cu NWs prior to their full exploitation. Among the wide variety of methods available to generate Cu NWs, solution-based synthesis routes are considered to be a promising strategy because of several advantages including fewer constraints on the selection of precursors, the solvent and reaction conditions, and the feasibility of large-scale low-cost production. Here, we provide a thorough review of various recently developed synthetic methodologies to obtain Cu NWs, with particular emphasis on wet chemical synthesis approaches including a hydrothermal route, reduction of metal precursors, and catalytic synthesis. The emerging applications of Cu NWs including transparent electrodes and flexible/stretchable electronics are also discussed, followed by brief comments on the remaining challenges and future research perspectives.