title: Synthesis of single-crystalline perovskite nanorods composed of barium titanate and strontium titanate.
abstract: We report the solution-based synthesis of single-crystalline nanorods composed of barium titanate (BaTiO3) and strontium titanate (SrTiO3), which yields well-isolated nanorods with diameters ranging from 5 to 60 nm and lengths reaching up to >10 mum. Electron microscopy and diffraction measurements show that these nanorods are composed of single-crystalline cubic perovskite BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 with a principal axis of the unit cell preferentially aligned along the wire length. These BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 nanorods should provide promising materials for fundamental investigations on nanoscale ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, and paraelectricity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Urban
authors.forename: Wan Soo
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Hongkun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Park