Thursday, July 11, 2013

Titania nanorods curve to lower their energy




Nanoscale , 2013, 5,6742-6746

DOI: 10.1039/C3NR02616G, Communication

Hengzhong Zhang, Michael P. Finnegan, Jillian F. Banfield

In hydrothermal coarsening of small anatase nanoparticles, one observed unexpected formation of curved and dislocation-free anatase nanorods grown via oriented attachment. Molecular dynamics simulations show that formation of curved nanorods is actually more energetically favored than straight rods due to more attractive long-range interatomic Coulombic interactions among atoms in the curved rod.

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