Near-ideal compressive strength of nanoporous silver composed of nanowires

Nanoporous materials exhibit promising applications in energy storage, catalysis, and sensing. They are typically synthesized by dealloying, a costly and environmentally detrimental technology, valid only within a narrow compositional range of alloys. Surmounting these disadvantages, we assembled nanoporous silver materials via bottom-up nanoscale joining of nanowires, a technique also suitable for other metals. Furthermore, the resulting …