Accelerated electron beam induced breakdown of commercial WO3 into nanorods in the presence of triethylamine.
Tungsten oxide nanorods were prepared from commercial crystalline WO(3) particles treated with triethylamine under electron beam irradiation in an electron microscope operating at 200 kV. The amine acts as a molecular knife, cleaving the particles under beam irradiation.
i-Lab Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and Nanobionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, PR China. gdawson2006@sinano.ac.cn
Graham
G
Dawson
Wuzong
W
Zhou
Ross
R
Blackley