Armed with the merits of one-dimensional nanostructures (flexibility, high aspect ratio, and
anisotropy) and metals (high conductivity, plasmonic properties, and catalytic activity), metal …

With the advance in flexible and stretchable electronics, one-dimensional nanomaterials
such as metal nanowires have drawn much attention in the past 10 years or so. Metal …

Nanotechnology offers the promise of enabling revolutionary advances in diverse areas
ranging from electronics, optoelectronics, and energy to healthcare. Underpinning the …

Semiconductor nanowires have attracted extensive interest as one of the best-defined
classes of nanoscale building blocks for the bottom-up assembly of functional electronic and …

As natural one‐dimensional confined electron transport channels and photon propagation
paths, nanowires (NWs) display unmatched properties and huge potential for application in …

Although optical lithography is suited for producing intricate architectures, its combination
with “bottom-up” approaches becomes a very challenging issue. The challenge is to …

Future microelectronic and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will require a
decreased size as well as high electrical conductivity combined with high mechanical …

Nanowires and nanotubes of diverse material compositions, properties and/or functions
have been produced or fabricated through various bottom-up or top-down approaches …

Semiconductor nanowires have demonstrated exciting properties for nanophotonics,
sensors, energy technologies, and end-of-roadmap and beyond-roadmap electronic …

One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures are ideal systems for investigating the dependence of
electrical transport, optical properties and mechanical properties on size and dimensionality …