Kinking-induced structural evolution of metal oxide nanowires into single-crystalline nanorings

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 5350-5356

  Yan, Chaoyi ^a   Singh, Nandan ^a   Lee, Pooi See ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

kink; metal oxide; nanoring; nanowire; semiconductor; vapor liquid solid

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLABLE FORMATION; EFFICIENT METHOD; FUNCTIONAL METALS; FUNCTIONAL OXIDES; INNOVATIVE METHOD; KINK; METAL OXIDE; METAL OXIDE NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC CIRCUITS; RING SHAPED STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID; VAPOR-LIQUID-SOLID MECHANISM; WAVE-GUIDING;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUIDS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; NANORINGS; NANOWIRES; VAPORS; ZINC;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 77957323109     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101386c     Document Type: Article

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