Synthesis of platestacks and microtowers of zinc by thermal evaporation

One-step synthesis of single-crystal anatase TiO2tetragonal faceted-nanorods for improved-performance dye-sensitized solar cells

“…24 As the primary driving force for crystal growth, the minimization of surface energies leads to different growth rates of various crystal planes with different surface energies, which can control the crystal morphology. 25 Crystal planes with high surface energies diminish quickly for the minimization of surfaces energies during a crystal growth process, resulting in a crystal terminated by low-surface-energy facets with a slow growing rate. For anatase TiO 2 crystals, the order of the average surface energies is g{001} (0.90 J mÀ 2 ) > g{010} (0.53 J mÀ 2 ) > g{101} (0.44 J mÀ 2 ).…”

Synthesis and luminescent properties of NaLa(MoO4)2:Eu3+ shuttle-like nanorods composed of nanoparticles

“…In view of the crystal growth, the morphology of the crystal highly depends on the relative growth rates of various crystal planes. 27 For the tetragonal NaLa(MoO 4 ) 2 , generally, the surface energy of the {100} crystal face is higher than that of the {111} face, causing that the growth rate along the <100> direction is faster than that along the <111> direction. 28 The fast growing of {100} face further induces its disappeared in the subsequent crystal growth, resulting in the formation of truncated octahedron crystals.…”

Effect of oxygen partial pressure on the growth of zinc micro and nanostructures

“…Zinc nanowires were also synthesized by thermal evaporation of Zn and carbo-thermal reduction of ZnO and ZnS [12,13]. In addition to this, onedimensional (1D) nanostructure, zinc microcrystals were also synthesized by thermal evaporation [14][15][16].…”