A Facile Fabrication of Silver-Coated Copper Nanowires by Galvanic Replacement

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SEM images of high-yielded Cu NWs with low (a) and high (b) magnification; (c) diameter distribution histogram of the nanowires; (d) corresponding EDS pattern of the nanowires; (e) XRD pattern of the Cu NWs, and the PDF card of cubic copper (JCPDF number 96-710-1265) is provided for reference.

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