Prudent electrochemical pretreatment to promote the OER by catalytically inert “Iron incorporated metallic Ni nanowires” synthesized via the “non-classical” growth mechanism

This study provides new insight towards the non-classical “amorphous to crystalline” growth mechanism for metal nanowire synthesis and reports an electrochemical strategy to activate inactive materials into efficient electrocatalysts for the OER.

Morphology-controlled silver nanowire synthesis using a cocamidopropyl betaine-based polyol process for flexible and stretchable electronics

Ultra-long silver nanowires with a length of ∼120 μm were synthesised using a cocamidopropyl betaine-based polyol process.

Monovalent sulfur oxoanions enable millimeter-long single-crystalline h-WO3 nanowire synthesis

Monovalent sulfur oxoanions (HSO4− and CH3SO3−), rather than the previously proposed SO42−, significantly promote the anisotropic nanowire growth of hexagonal WO3.