Standing porous ZnO nanoplate-built hollow microspheres and kinetically controlled dissolution/crystal growth mechanism

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 951-958

  Wang, Xianbiao ^a,b   Cai, Weiping ^a   Wang, Guozhong ^a   Liang, Changhao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^b ANHUI JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Core shell; Crystal growth; Nanostructure

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TREATMENTS; CORE/SHELL; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HOLLOW MICROSPHERE; HOLLOW SPHERE; KINETICALLY CONTROLLED; MICRO/NANOSTRUCTURES; NANO-PLATE; NANOPLATES; NON-POLAR; PRECURSOR SOLUTIONS; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; SURFACE CRYSTALLIZATION; ZNO;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; DISSOLUTION; KINETICS; SPHERES; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOSTRUCTURES;

EID: 84863245156     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.15     Document Type: Article

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