Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with blooming flowers driven by screw dislocations

Chengzi Huang; Run Shi; Abbas Amini; Zefei Wu; Shuigang Xu; Linfei Zhang; Wei Cao; Jiangwei Feng; Haisheng Song; Yantao Shi; Ning Wang; Chun Cheng

doi:10.1038/srep08226

Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with blooming flowers driven by screw dislocations

Chengzi Huang, Run Shi, Abbas Amini, Zefei Wu, Shuigang Xu, Linfei Zhang, Wei Cao, Jiangwei Feng, Haisheng Song, Yantao Shi, Ning Wang, Chun Cheng

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Hierarchical ZnO nanostructures with a large yield were fabricated by a simple thermal evaporation method. For the first time, novel ZnO flowers were observed blooming at certain sites of a variety of spines, identified as Zn-terminated polar (0001) planes or tips. The spines for as-synthesized hierarchical structures can be nanowires, nanobelts, nanodendrites, nanobrushes, etc. This growth phenomenon determines the key role of polar sites in the fabrication of hierarchical structures. The spiral feature of ZnO flowers indicates an unusual screw dislocation driven growth mechanism, which is attributed to a high concentration of Zn vapor.

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	5
Issue number	8226
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08226
Publication status	Published - 2015

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