title: Significant photoelectric property change caused by additional nano-confinement: a study of half-dimensional nanomaterials.
abstract: How properties change as 1D nanomaterials reduce in length to 0D, that is, the properties of 0.5D nanomaterial, are studied via photoelectric changes in ZnO nanowires. The photoelectric property of this 0.5D nanomaterial changes significantly as the 3D nanoconfinement is reinforced. This finding can be expanded to more properties and materials to profoundly impact fields of nanoscience, nanodevices, and nanoelectronics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Center for Materials for Information Technology (MINT), The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA.
authors.forename: Chengming
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jinhui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Song
keywords: AFM; confinement effects; half-dimensional nanomaterials; nanoparticles; nanowires; photoelectric properties