Xu et al. Nanoscale Research Letters 2011, 6:525 http://www.nanoscalereslett.com/content/6/1/525 atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) characterization; and Figure S3, process of fabricating individually addressable nanowire patterns on Si substrate. Acknowledgements This work is financially supported by Enterprise Ireland (EI) under the commercialization fund CFTD/2008/322 and by “Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET)”, co-funded by Marie Curie Actions under FP7”. The authors acknowledge the assistance from Pio Jesudoss, Paul Tassie and Tony Compagno for their help with the characterization equipments. Author details 1Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Lee Maltings, Dyke Parade, Cork, Ireland 2Department of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland Authors’ contributions JX carried out the nanowire array experiment and prepared the manuscript. 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