Carestream Health, Inc.

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Eastman-kodak Company

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David R Whitcomb

Kumars Sakizadeh

William Donald Ramsden

Doreen Catherine Lynch

Sharon Mary Simpson

Lilia P Burleva

Peter Jerome Cowdery-Corvan

Leif P Olson

Larry R Krepski

Frank Thomas Sher

Takuzo Ishida

Louis M Leichter

Oanh V Pham

William C Frank

Junping Zhang

Boris B Bokhonov

Nepal C Howlader

Chaofeng Zou

Gary E Labelle

Susan K Jongewaard

Karissa L Eckert

Steven M Shor

Alan J Herbert

Loren D Albin

Jon A Bjork

Preparation methods, compositions, and articles useful for electronic and optical applications are disclosed. Such methods reduce metal ions to metal nanowires in the presence of bromide ions, IUPAC Group 14 elements in their +2 oxidation state, and optionally chloride ions. The product nanowires are useful in electronics applications.

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods which reduce metal ions to metal nanowires in the presence of aluminum or gallium ions, are capable of producing long, narrow, nanowires useful for electronics and optical applications.

Nanomaterial preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed and claimed. Such methods can provide nanomaterials with improved morphologies relative to previous methods. Such materials are useful in electronic applications.

Methods and compositions are disclosed for preparation of both open and closed nanowire metal rings. Such rings may be used in conductive layers of electronic devices.

Nanowire ring preparation methods, compositions, and articles

Nanomaterial preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed and claimed. Such methods can provide nanomaterials with improved morphologies and reduced nitric oxide co-production relative to previous methods. Such materials are useful in electronic applications.

Methods of producing metal nanowires, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods allow production of metal nanowires with reproducibly uniform diameter and length, even in the presence of catalyst concentration variation. Such metal nanowires are useful for electronics applications.

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods, which reduce metal ions to metal nanowires in the presence of zero-valent metal atoms, are capable of producing long, narrow, nanowires useful for electronics and optical applications.

Zero-valent catalysis of metal ion reduction methods, compositions, and articles

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods which reduce metal ions to metal nanowires in the presence complexes comprising metal-metal bonds, are capable of producing long, narrow, nanowires useful for electronics and optical applications.

Metal ion catalysis of metal ion reduction, methods, compositions, and articles

Claimed methods do not rely on highly reactive reagents, highly corrosive solutions, high temperatures, or long reaction times. Nanowires produced from such methods are free of large attached nanoparticles that have accompanied previously disclosed copper nanowires. Such nanowires are useful for electronics applications.

Copper nanowire preparation methods and compositions

Branched nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such branched nanowires are useful for electronics and optical applications.

Branched nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles

Methods of preparing metal nanowire are disclosed that employ quaternary phosphonium salts. Such processes can produce long and thin nanowires. Compositions and articles comprising such nanowires are useful in electronics applications.

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