General Preparation and Shaping of Multifunctional Nanowire Aerogels for Pressure/Gas/Photo-Sensing

Nanowires (NWs) with ultrahigh aspect ratio are good one-dimensional (1D) nano scaffolds for building functional aerogels. However, challenges still remain in exploring methods to prepare shape designable NW aerogels with high quality, and to reveal multi functions in a single NW aerogel monolith. Here, we report a general camphene freeze-drying method for preparation of various inorganic NW aerogels (e.g, Cu, hydroxylapatite, MnO2 and MnOOH NW...