Monodispersed vanadium dioxide (VO2) hollow microspheres aggregated by elliptical nanorods were synthesized via a one-step template-free method. The inside-out Ostwald ripening mechanism is responsible for the formation of the hollow microspheres.
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Template-free hydrothermal synthesis of VO2 hollow microspheres
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Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Anhui Key Lab of Nanomaterials and Nanostructure, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, P. R. China
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Ningbo Institute of Material Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo, P. R. China
CrystEngComm, 2012,14, 3858-3861
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE25199J
Received 13 Feb 2012, Accepted 09 Mar 2012
First published online 12 Mar 2012
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