title: Fabrication of rutile TiO2 tapered nanotubes with rectangular cross-sections via anisotropic corrosion route.
abstract: We demonstrate here for the first time the fabrication of a novel morphology of rutile TiO(2) tapered nanotubes with rectangular cross-sections via a facile hydrothermal method using TiO(2) nanorod as the precursor. A plausible anisotropic corrosion mechanism for the formation of TiO(2) nanotubes is also proposed.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Materials-Oriented Chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing 210009, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Jieshu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yuming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: Xingfu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Xuefeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Weiping
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ding