Strain effects in low-dimensional transition metal oxides

J Cao, J Wu - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2011 - Elsevier
Transition metal oxides offer a wide spectrum of properties which provide the foundation for
a broad range of potential applications. Many of these properties originate from intrinsic …

One-dimensional boron nanostructures: Prediction, synthesis, characterizations, and applications

J Tian, Z Xu, C Shen, F Liu, N Xu, HJ Gao - Nanoscale, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
One-dimensional (1D) boron nanostructures are very potential for nanoscale electronic
devices since their physical properties including electric transport and field emission have …

Metal-like single crystalline boron nanotubes: synthesis and in situ study on electric transport and field emission properties

F Liu, C Shen, Z Su, X Ding, S Deng, J Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron nanotubes (BNTs) have been theoretically proposed to have metallic properties
whether they are in armchair or zigzag structure, so they have attracted much interest from …

Microstructure and electromechanical properties of carbon nanotube/poly (vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) composites

S Zhang, N Zhang, C Huang, K Ren, Q Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2005 - pure.psu.edu
Abstract Well-dispersed P (VDF-TrFE-CFE)/carbon nanotube (CNT) composites were
fabricated by prefunctionalization of the CNT and employing a coagulation method. The …

Morphology-directed synthesis of ZnO nanostructures and their antibacterial activity

M Ramani, S Ponnusamy, C Muthamizhchelvan… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2013 - Elsevier
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures of various morphologies were produced in an aqueous
system, with pyridine as a shape-directing agent. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and selected-area …

Effect of the morphology on the optical properties of ZnO nanostructures

Z Yang, Z Ye, Z Xu - Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and …, 2009 - Elsevier
ZnO nanostructures are fabricated by citric acid-assisted annealing process. The samples
are characterized by X-ray diffraction, field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE …

Catalyst-free pulsed-laser-deposited ZnO nanorods and their room-temperature photoluminescence properties

ZW Liu, CK Ong, T Yu, ZX Shen - Applied physics letters, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
ZnO nanorods with various diameters were synthesized on both sapphire and silicon
substrates by a pulsed-laser-deposition technique without a catalyst using relatively high …

The mechanism of growth of ZnO nanorods by reactive sputtering

R Nandi, SS Major - Applied Surface Science, 2017 - Elsevier
DC reactive magnetron sputtering of zinc target in argon-oxygen sputtering atmosphere has
been used to grow ZnO thin films/nanorods on Si in a wide substrate temperature range of …

[PDF][PDF] Fabrication of Vertically Aligned Single‐Crystalline Boron Nanowire Arrays and Investigation of Their Field‐Emission Behavior

F Liu, J Tian, L Bao, T Yang, C Shen, X Lai… - Advanced …, 2008 - n04.iphy.ac.cn
Elemental boron arouses great interest from both scientific and technological areas of
research because it has unique chemical and physical properties and its theoretical tubular …

Simulation of waveguiding and emitting properties of semiconductor nanowires with hexagonal or circular sections

AL Henneghien, B Gayral, Y Désières, JM Gérard - JOSA B, 2009 - opg.optica.org
Nanowires as an active medium are promising for getting high brightness light emitting
diodes. Semiconductors such as GaN and ZnO grow as nanowires with a hexagonal cross …