title: Sodium-cutting: a new top-down approach to cut open nanostructures on nonplanar surfaces on a large scale.
abstract: We report a new, low-cost and simple top-down approach, "sodium-cutting", to cut and open nanostructures deposited on a nonplanar surface on a large scale. The feasibility of sodium-cutting was demonstrated with the successfully cutting open of ∼100% carbon nanospheres into nanobowls on a large scale from Sn@C nanospheres for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA 48202. da.deng@wayne.edu.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Da
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Deng