Hierarchical ZnO Nanostructures with Blooming Flowers Driven by Screw Dislocations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Huang, Chengzi ^a   Shi, Run ^a   Amini, Abbas ^b   Wu, Zefei ^c   Xu, Shuigang ^c   Zhang, Linfei ^a   Cao, Wei ^a   Feng, Jiangwei ^a   Song, Haisheng ^d   Shi, Yantao ^e   Wang, Ning ^c   Cheng, Chun ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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EID: 84946775665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08226     Document Type: Article

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