1 Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
A new method to prepare flexible Ag/cross-linked poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) nanocables has been discovered for the first time by one-step in situ reduction of Ag+ and Ag+-catalyzed cross-linking of PVA chains under hydrothermal conditions.