Hey Badawi,
I never worked with silver nanowires but I assume they are diluted in some kind of liquid. In my experiments on deteministic high aspect ratio nanostructures I had the problem, that drying them always ended in a total colapse of the nanostructure. I guess this is due to capilar forces of the liquid. We circumvented the problem by using a critical point dryer. The general mechanism is: first the liquid is substituted, second the substituted liquid is solidified and third the solid is sublimated. This way one gets rid of the capilar forces... good luck!
http://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/products/equipment/critical_point_drier.aspx
Hey Badawi,
I'm not an expert in silver nanowires but I assume the are diluted in some kind of liquid. In my experiments on deterministic high aspect ratio nanostructures I experienced somehow the same problem. After drying, most of the nanostructures did colapse and I guess it is due to the capilary forces. We solved the problem by the method of critical point drying (CPD). Just figure out the link below (randow choice, another CPD might do it as well).
http://www.emsdiasum.com/microscopy/products/equipment/critical_point_drier.aspx
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