Synthesis of tungsten oxide comblike nanostructures

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Tungsten oxide comblike nanostructures were synthesized using a two-step thermal evaporation method. The first step involving high reactor pressure and temperature was to synthesize the cores of the comb structures, upon which the teeth of the comb were grown in the second step using low operation pressures and temperatures. The teeth of the comb structure are well aligned and vertical to the side surfaces of the cores. The effects of growth parameters were examined, and the growth mechanism was investigated.

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This work is financially supported by grants from the Research Grant Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China under the Grant No. HKU 7047/05P and HKU 7046/05P.

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    Kunquan Hong, Maohai Xie, Rong Hu & Huasheng Wu

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Hong, K., Xie, M., Hu, R. et al. Synthesis of tungsten oxide comblike nanostructures. Journal of Materials Research 23, 2657–2661 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2008.0324

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