| Literature DB >> 16834419 |
Haimei Zheng1, Qian Zhan, Florin Zavaliche, Matt Sherburne, Florian Straub, Maria P Cruz, Long-Qing Chen, Uli Dahmen, R Ramesh.
Abstract
We report a discovery that self-assembled perovskite-spinel nanostructures can be controlled simply by selecting single-crystal substrates with different orientations. In a model BiFeO(3)-CoFe(2)O(4) system, a (001) substrate results in rectangular-shaped CoFe(2)O(4) nanopillars in a BiFeO(3) matrix; in contrast, a (111) substrate leads to triangular-shaped BiFeO(3) nanopillars in a CoFe(2)O(4) matrix, irrespective of the volume fraction of the two phases. This dramatic reversal is attributed to the surface energy anisotropy as an intrinsic property of a crystal.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16834419 DOI: 10.1021/nl060401y
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189