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Surface-guided growth of non-planar nanowires on functional substrates offers the new opportunity to precisely control their diameter, length, density and alignment, which will greatly benefit their direct integration into practical devices for large-scale applications. However, control of noble metal nanowires growth and arrangement remains a great challenge, and the mechanistic understanding is still limited. Herein, we choose Pt as a model material system to study the synthesis conditions required to control the in situ growth of aligned Pt nanowires on flat titanium substrate via a one-step and room-temperature green chemical synthesis process in aqueous solution. Most importantly, it is for the first time discovered that ordered nanoarrays and self-assembled nanoflowers can be directly grown on flat Ti substrate by merely adjusting the reaction times, without use of any soft/hard templates, surfactants and organic solvents. The proposed surface-guided growth mechanisms for nanoarray and nanoflower formation in this study may shed light on understanding of oriented arrangement/assembly of one-dimensional Pt nanowires into desirable morphologies for a variety of practical device applications.
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The authors greatly appreciate the support from US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Fuel Cell Technologies Office Award Number DE-EE0008426 and DE-EE0008423, National Renewable Energy Laboratory under Award DE-AC36-08GO28308, and National Energy Technology Laboratory under Award DE-FE0011585. A portion of the research work was carried out at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The authors also wish to express their appreciation to Dale Hensley, Dayrl Briggs, Alexander Terekhov, Douglas Warnberg, and Dr. Brian Canfield for their help.
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**e, Z., Yu, S., Cui, C. et al. Unveiling mechanism of surface-guided platinum nanowire growth. J Mater Sci 57, 12875–12885 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07449-5
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