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Synthesis of crystalline boron nanowires by laser ablation
Yingjiu Zhang1, Hiroki Ago, Motoo Yumura
1Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan. yj-zhang@aist.go.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|December 14, 2002
Abstract:
Crystalline boron nanowires with tetragonal structure have been synthesized based on laser ablation of a B/NiCo target; the nanowires are sometimes single crystals and have a droplet at one end of the nanowire; the droplet contains B, Ni and Co elements, which indicates that the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism may play a key role in the growth of the boron nanowires.