Electrical Transport Through Individual Vanadium Pentoxide Nanowires

The controlled deposition of individual V2O5 nanowires on chemically modified SiO2 substrates is reported here. Electrical transport measurements were performed on individual fibers (see Figure) and on thin fiber networks, and the conductivity of an individual V2O5 nanowire was estimated to be ∼0.5 S/cm at room temperature. The structure of the fibers was investigated using scanning force microscopy.