Advanced Materials, Vol.17, No.2, 200-200, 2005
Tubular and twisted Ni-P fibers molded from morphology-tunable and recyclable organic templates of hydrogen-bonded supramolecular assemblages
Morphology-controlled nickel-phosphorus hollow microfibers (see Figure) have been fabricated by electro-less plating using hydrogen-bonded fibrous molecular aggregates as novel morphology-tunable and recyclable templates. The inner diameter and the tubular morphology are tunable by simply varying the amphoteric azopyridine carboxylic. acids forming the fibrous molecular aggregates.