Synthesizing Cu-Sn nanowires alloy in highly-ordered Aluminum Oxide templates by using electrodeposition method

Abstract

In this research a novel and simple electrochemical method is developed in order to facilitate the large-scale production of nanowires. The proposed electrochemical technique shows versatile controllability over chemical composition and crystalline structure of Cu-Sn nanowires. Another important factor, which could be controlled by using this method, is the order structure of nanowires more accurately in comparison to conventional synthesizing procedures. As a result, the Cu-Sn nanowires as well as Aluminum Oxide templates synthesized by using the proposed electrochemical method are examined due to their morphology and chemical structure to find a relation between electrodeposition's solution chemistry and materials properties of Cu-Sn nanowires. The results show that the proposed electrochemical method maintains a highly-ordered morphology as well as versatile controllability over chemical composition of nanowires, which could be used to optimize the procedure for industrial applications due to low cost and simple experimental setup.