Low-temperature solution growth of ZnO nanotube arrays

• Ki-Woong Chae,
• Qifeng Zhang,
• Jeong Seog Kim,
• Yoon-Ha Jeong and
• Guozhong Cao

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 128–134, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.15

• a more comprehensive understanding of the growth of tube-shaped ZnO in aqueous solution at low temperature. Keywords: growth from solutions; nanorods; nanotubes; supersaturation; ZnO; Introduction ZnO is a type of semiconductor with a wide band gap (3.37 eV) and a large exciton binding energy (~60