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ARTICLE IN PRESS Journal of Crystal Growth 299 2007 158–164 /locate/jcrysgro A facile templateless, surfactantless hydrothermal route to ultralong copper submicron wires Wei Wang, Guicun Li, Zhikun Zhang Key Laboratory of Nanostructured Materials, Qingdao University of Science Technology, Qingdao 266042, People’s Republic of China Received 29 July 2006; received in revised form 26 November 2006; accepted 27 November 2006 Communicated by K. Nakajima Available online 23 January 2007 Abstract Ultralong copper submicron wires has been fabricated by a facile hydrothermal route under templateless and surfactantless conditions. Vitamin C served as both the reductant and capping agent that can direct the growth of copper submicron wires. The crystallinity, purity, morphology, and structure features of copper submicron wires were investigated by powder X-ray diffraction XRD , scanning electron microscopy SEM , transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction TEM/SAED . The growth mechanism of the copper submicron wires was studied in detail. r 2007 Published by Elsevier B.V. Keywords: A1. Low-dimensional structures; A1. Nanostructures; A2. Hydrothermal crystal growth; B1. Metals; B1. Nanomaterials 1. Introduction face-centered cubic fcc Cu nanorods and nanowires are mainly fabricated by the template-directed methods [5–10] One-dimensional 1D nanomaterials rods/belts/wires/ yet the necessary removal of template is often dif?cult and cables have been a subject of intensive research in recent may cause damage to the nanowire product [11,12]. More years owing to their unique magnetic, optical, electrical and recently, several groups have successfully achieved Cu catalytic properties [1,2]. They are expected to play an nanowires by solution-phase routes, whereas most of them important role as both interconnects and functional units are soft template or surfactant-based methods