Sodium-cutting: a new top-down approach to cut open nanostructures on nonplanar surfaces on a large scale
1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA 48202. da.deng@wayne.edu.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 18, 2014
Abstract:
We report a new, low-cost and simple top-down approach, "sodium-cutting", to cut and open nanostructures deposited on a nonplanar surface on a large scale. The feasibility of sodium-cutting was demonstrated with the successfully cutting open of ∼100% carbon nanospheres into nanobowls on a large scale from Sn@C nanospheres for the first time.
