Synthesis of crystalline boron nanowires by laser ablation.
Crystalline boron nanowires with tetragonal structure have been synthesized based on laser ablation of a B/NiCo target; the nanowires are sometimes single crystals and have a droplet at one end of the nanowire; the droplet contains B, Ni and Co elements, which indicates that the vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) mechanism may play a key role in the growth of the boron nanowires.
Zhang
Yingjiu
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Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan. yj-zhang@aist.go.jp
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