Complex and oriented ZnO nanostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 821-826

  Tian, Zhengrong R ^a   Voigt, James A ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Mckenzie, Bonnie ^a   Mcdermott, Matthew J ^a   Rodriguez, Mark A ^a   Konishi, Hiromi ^b   Xu, Huifang ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; MORPHOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZINC OXIDE;

COMPLEX BILAYERS; OPTICAL EMISSION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0344875971     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1014     Document Type: Article

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