Investigation on structural, thermal, optical and sensing properties of meta-stable hexagonal MoO₃ nanocrystals of one dimensional structure

• Angamuthuraj Chithambararaj and
• Arumugam Chandra Bose

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 585–592, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.62

• factor (0.9), λ is the wavelength of Cu Kα1 radiation (1.5406 Å), and θhkl is the Bragg diffraction angle. The crystallite size was estimated and found to be 51 nm. Although the size of the crystallite is in the nanometer range, significant structural defects such as dislocations, staking faults, twin

Defects in oxide surfaces studied by atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy

• Thomas König,
• Georg H. Simon,
• Lars Heinke,
• Leonid Lichtenstein and
• Markus Heyde

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 1–14, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.1

• nm × 1.788 nm, α = 88.7◦) are rotated by ±24◦ with respect to NiAl. Antiphase domain boundaries in aluminum oxide The most common structural defects in the thin film aluminum oxide on NiAl(110), besides substrate induced step edges, are reflection domain boundaries (from domain A to B or vice versa

Enhanced visible light photocatalysis through fast crystallization of zinc oxide nanorods

• Sunandan Baruah,
• Mohammad Abbas Mahmood,
• Myo Tay Zar Myint,
• Tanujjal Bora and
• Joydeep Dutta

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 14–20, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.3

• growth concentrations: (a) 0.1 mM, (b) 1.0 mM, and (c) 10.0 mM. A typical scanning electron micrograph showing the ZnO nanorods grown using microwave irradiation in a reaction bath containing 10.0 mM zinc nitrate and hexamethylenetetramine for 10 h; structural defects can be observed especially on the

• growth concentrations of the reactant solution. A typical scanning electron micrograph of ZnO nanorods grown through fast crystallization in a reaction bath containing 10.0 mM zinc nitrate hexahydrate and hexamethylenetetramine with microwave irradiation for 10 h is shown in Figure 5. Visible structural

• defects can be clearly observed on the surface of the rods. In order to further confirm if the fast synthesis route creates increased electron deficient sites, two samples with comparable exposed surface areas, one prepared by the conventional process (Sample 2 with surface area ≈ 47.54 cm2) and the other