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Facile Gram-Scale Growth of Single-Crystalline Nanotetrapod-Assembled ZnO Through a Rapid Process

  1. Jianye Li1,2,
  2. Hongying Peng3,5,
  3. Jie Liu1,
  4. Henry O. Everitt3,4

Article first published online: 3 JUN 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ejic.200701306

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European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Volume 2008, Issue 20, pages 3172–3176, July 2008

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Li, J., Peng, H., Liu, J. and Everitt, H. O. (2008), Facile Gram-Scale Growth of Single-Crystalline Nanotetrapod-Assembled ZnO Through a Rapid Process. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2008: 3172–3176. doi: 10.1002/ejic.200701306

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

  2. 2

    Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

  3. 3

    Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA

  4. 4

    U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Research, Development & Engineering Center, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama 35898, USA

  5. 5

    Present address: GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, New York 12309, USA

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 JUL 2008
  2. Article first published online: 3 JUN 2008
  3. Manuscript Received: 4 DEC 2007

Funded by

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Grant Number: 49620-02-1-0188

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Keywords:

  • Nanocrystalline materials;
  • Semi­conducting materials;
  • Nanotetrapods;
  • Zinc oxide

Abstract

From a rapid combustion and catalyst-free method, puresingle-crystalline nanotetrapod-assembled bulk nano-ZnO was grown on a gram-scale for the first time. The gram-scale bulk nano-ZnO is synthesized from ZnO powder with great reliability and repeatability, and also a high conversion efficiency. All four arms of the nanotetrapods are cone shaped and grow in the [001] direction. The photoluminescence properties of the nanotetrapod-assembled ZnO were studied and a mechanism was suggested for the growth of the bulk nanotetrapod-assembled ZnO. (© Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2008)

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