A simple route to large-scale synthesis of silver sulfide nanowires

In this paper, long silver sulfide nanowires have been successfully synthesized by microwave irradiation-assisted method. The results indicated that nanowires with diameters of about 100 nm and lengths of up to several dozens of micrometers can be obtained through this method. The selected area electron diffraction pattern indicated that the Ag2S nanowires thus formed were amorphous. The mechanism for the microwave irradiation synthesis of Ag2S nanowires was proposed.