A comprehensive review on synthesis methods for transition-metal oxide nanostructures
Nanostructured transition-metal oxides exhibit excellent properties, such as ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, photoluminescence and semiconductive behaviors, etc. The band gap and electronic structure of these oxides can be controlled by size and dimensions; they can also be used in a wide range of app...
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| Published in | CrystEngComm Vol. 17; no. 19; pp. 3551 - 3585 |
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| Main Authors | , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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01.01.2015
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| Summary: | Nanostructured transition-metal oxides exhibit excellent properties, such as ferromagnetic, ferroelectric, photoluminescence and semiconductive behaviors,
etc.
The band gap and electronic structure of these oxides can be controlled by size and dimensions; they can also be used in a wide range of applications including microelectronics, energy storage, sensors, and biomedicine due to their tunable chemical and physical properties. Here, we give a comprehensive review of the controllable growth of some typical transition-metal oxide nanostructures (
e.g.
, WO
x
, FeO
x
, ZnO, TiO
2
, VO
2
,
etc.
), which can be used to effectively understand the fabrication methods as well as the growth mechanism and inspire their potential applications.
Recent developments of transition-metal oxide nanostructures with designed shape and dimensionality, including various synthesis methods and applications, are presented. |
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| Bibliography: | Ting Guo received his MSc degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010. He is currently a PhD student at Tsinghua University. His research interests include functional nanomaterial synthesis with the application in diluted magnetic semiconductors, gas and UV sensors. Ce-Wen Nan is Professor of Materials Science at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Before joining the faculty of Tsinghua University in 1999, he had worked in Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, since 1985. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and the Third-World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in 2012. His recent research focuses on functional materials, including multiferroic magnetoelectric materials, thermoelectric oxides, functional polymer-based composites, and solid state electrolytes. Yuan-Hua Lin is "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished professor of Materials Science at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He received his BS degree from East China Institute of Technology, China, his MS degree from the Chemical and Metallurgic Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD degree from Tsinghua University, China. He was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science scholar at the University of Tokyo in 2005. His main research interests are functional oxide-based ceramics and thin films including high κ ceramics and thin films for high energy density capacitors applications, high-temperature oxide thermoelectric materials and devices for energy conversion. Mingshui Yao received his Ph.D. in Materialogy at the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2014, and now he is an assistant professor at the State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS. His major fields are gas sensing materials and nano/micro gas sensors based on metal oxides and their composites. Contact: msyao@fjirsm.ac.cn. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 1466-8033 1466-8033 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c5ce00034c |