In this CrystEngComm Hot Article, Chinese scientists have prepared complex indium- and gallium-doped zinc oxide nanostructures with twin boundaries.
Three-edged nanobelts and hexagonal-disk strings were fabricated using a thermal evaporation method. Despite their differences in morphology they have the same twin boundaries, which the authors explain by introducing a twin core.
Understanding the growth of these nanostructures opens up the potential for assembling nanoscale building blocks into sophisticated structures.
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Group III element-doped ZnO twinning nanostructures
L. L. Wu, F. W. Liu and X. T. Zhang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05088E, Paper
