Plateau-Rayleigh crystal growth of periodic shells on one-dimensional substrates

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 345-352

  Day, Robert W ^a   Mankin, Max N ^a   Gao, Ruixuan ^a   No, You Shin ^b   Kim, Sun Kyung ^c   Bell, David C ^d,e   Park, Hong Gyu ^b   Lieber, Charles M ^a,e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING;

CORE-SHELL NANOWIRES; DEPOSITION CONDITIONS; DIAMETER MODULATION; ENERGY REDUCTION; GROWTH PHENOMENA; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; RAYLEIGH INSTABILITY;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

NANOWIRE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENERGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROSCOPY; PERIODICITY; PLATEAU RAYLEIGH CRYSTAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 84927177685     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2015.23     Document Type: Article

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