Atomistic insights into the oriented attachment of tunnel-based oxide nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 539-548

  Yuan, Yifei ^a,b   Wood, Stephen M ^c   He, Kun ^a,d   Yao, Wentao ^a   Tompsett, David ^c   Lu, Jun ^b   Nie, Anmin ^a   Islam, M Saiful ^c   Shahbazian Yassar, Reza ^a,e  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Interface; Nanowire; Oriented attachment; Surface structure; Tunnel

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MANGANESE; MANGANESE OXIDE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TUNNELS;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; CONTROLLED SYNTHESIS; ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; MATERIALS SCIENTIST; ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; SHORT RANGE ORDERING;

ION EXCHANGE;

EID: 84989941517     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b05535     Document Type: Article

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