A Novel Discovery of Growth Process for Ag Nanowires and Plausible Mechanism

<div>TEM image of the final Ag nanoproducts using PVP-K25. Inset (a): the nanowire used for the SAED and HRTEM studies with the area marked with a white pane indicating where the HRTEM image was recorded. Inset (b): a typical SAED of one Ag nanowire (following diagram is the orientation of the nanowires with respect to the incident beams). The spots from superimposition of the [<svg height="8.55521pt" id="M12" style="vertical-align:-0.2063904pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.34882 18.8898 8.55521" width="18.8898pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M384 0V27C293 34 287 42 287 114V635C232 613 172 594 109 583V559L157 557C201 555 205 550 205 499V114C205 42 199 34 109 27V0H384Z" id="g113-50"></path><glyph.data ascent="3473" descent="-2876" horiz-adv-x="480" vert-adv-y="480"></glyph.data></g><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,6.24,0)"><path d="M384 0V27C293 34 287 42 287 114V635C232 613 172 594 109 583V559L157 557C201 555 205 550 205 499V114C205 42 199 34 109 27V0H384Z" id="g113-50"></path><glyph.data ascent="3473" descent="-2876" horiz-adv-x="480" vert-adv-y="480"></glyph.data></g><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,12.48,0)"><path d="M241 635C89 635 35 457 35 312C35 153 89 -12 240 -12C390 -12 443 166 443 312C443 466 390 635 241 635ZM238 602C329 602 354 454 354 312C354 172 330 22 240 22C152 22 124 173 124 313S148 602 238 602Z" id="g113-49"></path><glyph.data ascent="3473" descent="-2876" horiz-adv-x="480" vert-adv-y="480"></glyph.data></g></svg>] axis are indicated. Inset(c): a typical HRTEM image of a selected area of an individual Ag nanowire.</div>

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Figure 6: A Novel Discovery of Growth Process for Ag Nanowires and Plausible Mechanism 