Room temperature in situ growth of B/BOx nanowires and BO x Nanotubes

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 799-805

  Gonzalez Martinez, Ignacio G ^a,b   Gorantla, Sandeep M ^a   Bachmatiuk, Alicja ^a,c,d   Bezugly, Viktor ^b   Zhao, Jiong ^a   Gemming, Thomas ^a   Kunstmann, Jens ^b,e   Eckert, Jürgen ^a,b   Cuniberti, Gianaurelio ^b   Rümmeli, Mark H ^d,f  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CENTRE OF POLYMER AND CARBON MATERIALS   (Poland)

^d Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^e Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^f Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

electron beam damage; gold catalysis; nanotechnology; Nanowires; radiolysis; room temperature; transmission electron microscope

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894219647     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl404147r     Document Type: Article

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