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Electrochemical approach towards the controllable synthesis of nickel nanocones based on the screw dislocation

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Densely and orderly Ni nanocones with regular spiral textures had been successfully synthesized via a simple and inexpensive electrodeposition process, named two-step electrode-exchange electrodeposition process, in solutions containing ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). Microstructure characterization indicated that Ni nanocones obtained by electrodeposition were pure Ni and were face centre cubic (fcc) structure, which grown mainly along (111) and (220) crystal face. After analysing the morphology, a more optimized possible growth mechanism of Ni nanocones was proposed, in which the stacking microstructure of Ni nanocones was mainly dependent on the stacking direction of Ni2+ on the crystal face (the same direction and the exact opposite direction). Meanwhile, we found that the microstructure of Ni nanocones would be controlled by adjusting the experiment parameters such as concentration of NH4Cl and electrodeposition time, and that the disintegration of complex ions caused NH4+ to gather in large numbers near the cathode and hinder the movement of subsequent complex ions, which made a great change in the microstructure of Ni nanocones.

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Prof. Y. F. Lu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) is gratefully acknowledged for fruitful discussion and for his critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51602262 and 61871281), the Innovation Fund of Postgraduate of Xihua University (No. ycjj2019033), the Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Provincial Education Department (No. 14201426), and the “Xihua Scholars” Program of Xihua University (No. DC1900007152).

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    Ruiqing Zou, Yuli Zhou, Jian Wang, Yuhe Li & Lin Gu

  2. School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People’s Republic of China

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Zou, R., Zhou, Y., Wang, J. et al. Electrochemical approach towards the controllable synthesis of nickel nanocones based on the screw dislocation. Appl Nanosci 10, 1625–1638 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13204-019-01233-9

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