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Fabrication and application of long silicon nanowire yarns

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Long silicon nanowire yarns with length up to 12 mm were fabricated from aligned silicon nanowires with crystal silicon cores of bifurcation structures as well as entangled amorphous hairy silicon oxide, which played vital roles in the formation of the yarns, and the silicon nanowire yarns were used as a pH sensor with the sensitivity of 1,080 ± 31 nS/pH in the pH range of 2–12.

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This project was supported by the CERG grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong (Account No. 9040879 (CityU 102403), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (20571001), the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2006CB933000) and Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (070414185).

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  1. Anhui Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, and College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, 241000, Wuhu, People’s Republic of China

    Ming-Wang Shao, Yan Fu, Liang Cheng & Xiu-Hua Wang

  2. Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF) and Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Dorothy-Duo-Duo Ma & Shuit-Tong Lee

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Shao, MW., Fu, Y., Cheng, L. et al. Fabrication and application of long silicon nanowire yarns. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 20, 1200–1202 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-008-9851-6

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