Wu, JunqingGuo, LeWen, MinBu, TongleZhou, PengZhong, JieHuang, FuzhiZhang, Qi2019-03-042019-03-042019-02-18Junqing Wu, Le Guo, Min Wen, et al., (2019) The self-assembling growth of copper nanowires for transparent electrodes. Journal of Wuhan University of Technology (Materials Science Edition), Volume 34, Issue 1, February 2019, pp. 145–1491000-2413https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-019-2028-8https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13961Long (15 - 40 μm), thin (diameter of 20 ± 5 nm), and well-dispersed CuNWs Cu nanowires were prepared. The high-resolution TEM and selected area electron diffraction showed that the CuNWs were single-crystalline. To investigate the growth mechanism, we examined the microstructure of these CuNWs at different reaction time. It was found that the CuNWs were actually formed through the self-assembling of Cu nanoparticles along the [110] direction. The transparent electrodes fabricated using the CuNWs achieved a high transparency of 76 % at 31±5 Ω/□.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Cu nanowiresgrowth mechanismself-assemblingtransparent electrodesArticle