Alignment of tellurium nanorods via a magnetization-alignment- demagnetization ("MAD") process assisted by an external magnetic field

ACS Nano

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1441-1450

  Yuan, Jiayin ^a   Gao, Haitao ^b   Schacher, Felix ^a   Xu, Youyong ^a   Richter, Reinhard ^a   Tremel, Wolfgang ^b   Müller, Axel H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment; Assembly; Magnetic nanocylinders; Magnetite nanoparticles; Tellurium nanorods

Indexed keywords

ACID-ETCHING; ASSEMBLY PROCESS; BUTYL METHACRYLATES; CRITICAL CONCENTRATION; EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; HYDROPHOBIC INTERACTIONS; IN-FIELD; MAGNETIC NANOCYLINDERS; MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES; MAGNETO-RHEOLOGY; NANOCYLINDERS; NONMAGNETIC; PRE-ALIGNED; SOLID SUBSTRATES; STOICHIOMETRIC RATIO;

ALIGNMENT; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DEMAGNETIZATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETITE; MAGNETS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OXIDE MINERALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TELLURIUM; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 67651212053     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn9002715     Document Type: Article

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