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

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel electrochemical method for large-scale, controllable synthesis of highly-ordered Cu-Sn nanowires within Aluminum Oxide templates, emphasizing its simplicity and industrial potential.

Contribution

It presents a new electrochemical technique that precisely controls composition and structure of Cu-Sn nanowires, improving over conventional methods.

Findings

High order morphology maintained

Versatile control over chemical composition

Potential for industrial scalability

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.