Template-assisted electrochemical growth of metallic nanowire arrays
Students will grow arrays of vertically aligned copper (Cu) or nickel (Ni) nanowires through template-assisted electrodeposition using nanoporous alumina membranes. They will explore how process parameters influence the length, morphology and packing density of the resulting nanowires, and characterize their structural and morphological properties using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Such nanowire arrays are widely investigated as nanostructured electrodes for applications in solar cells, sensors, energy storage systems and various other functional devices.