ZnO: a versatile template to obtain unusual morphologies of silica, gold  and carbon nanostructures.
Unusual morphologies of silica, gold and carbon were obtained by using ZnO nanostructures as templates. Microdrums and pencil-shaped ZnO nanostructures are successfully replicated into silica, gold and carbon analogues which are otherwise difficult to make.
Krishna
Katla Sai
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Nanomaterials and Catalysis Lab, Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit and DST Unit on Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, 560064, India.
Vivekanandan
Ganeshan
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Ravinder
Duduka
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Eswaramoorthy
Muthusamy
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