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Synthesis of very small diameter silica nanofibers using sound waves
Panos Datskos1, Jihua Chen, Jaswinder Sharma
1Nanosystems, Separations, and Materials Research Group, Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, One Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. sharmajk@ornl.gov.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 30, 2014
Abstract:
Silica nanofibers of an average diameter ≈30 nm and length ≈100 μm have been synthesized using an unprecedented strategy: sound waves. A new phenomenon, spinning off the nanofibers at silica rod tips, is also observed.
