title: Helical gold nanotube synthesized at 150 K.
abstract: Gold nanowires were synthesized at 150 K by electron beam thinning of a gold thin foil in an UHV electron microscope. The gold nanowires were found to have a helical multishell structure (HMS). One particular nanowire, which was thinner than the 7-1 HMS nanowire, was found to have a tubular structure. The gold single wall nanotube is composed of five atomic rows that coil about the tube axis. The diameter was 0.4 nm and the pitch was 11 nm. The stability of the (5,3) nanotube was discussed in terms of the shear deformation of the triangular network of gold atoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502 Japan. oshima@materia.titech.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yoshifumi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Oshima
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Onga
authors.forename: Kunio
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takayanagi