@article {Han:2011:2158-5849:176,
title = "Evolutional Transformation of Copper Oxide Nanowires to Copper Nanowires by a Reduction Technique",
journal = "Materials Express",
parent_itemid = "infobike://asp/me",
publishercode ="asp",
year = "2011",
volume = "1",
number = "2",
publication date ="2011-06-01T00:00:00",
pages = "176-180",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "2158-5849",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/me/2011/00000001/00000002/art00009",
doi = "doi:10.1166/mex.2011.1022",
keyword = "COPPER OXIDE NANOWIRE, OXIDATION, COPPER NANOWIRE, REDUCTION, INTERCONNECT",
author = "Han, Jin-Woo and Lohn, Andrew and Kobayashi, Nobuhiko P. and Meyyappan, M.",
abstract = "We report here a simple method to produce copper nanowires on a substrate as an alternative to template approaches and chemical synthesis routes. First, copper oxide nanowires are grown from conventional bulk copper wires by thermal oxidation. The resulting nanowires, which are a mixture
of CuO and Cu2O, are normal to the substrate. Next, these oxide nanowires are reduced to copper nanowires in the same furnace under a hydrogen flow at 400 \textdegreeC. The evolution of oxide nanowires and their transformation to copper nanowires is studied as a function of time. Electrical
characterization reveals a reduction of resistance by six orders of magnitude at the completion of the reduction process.",
}