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Chem. Commun., 2009, 6937 - 6939, DOI: 10.1039/b913917f

Controlled growth of novel hyper-branched nanostructures in nanoporous alumina membrane

Junping Zhang, Cynthia S. Day and David L. Carroll

This paper proposes a novel approach to fabricate hyper-branched anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) nanostructures with different branches on the vertically-aligned trunk and at the trunk terminal. Silver nanowires with different dimensional and multifunctional complexity have been prepared from this hyper-branched AAO template by varying the electrodeposition time. These kinds of novel nanostructure may be used to build blocks for nanoelectronic and nanophotonic devices.

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