Issue 16, 2008
From the journal:

Chemical Communications

Time-dependent growth of zinc hydroxide nanostrands and their crystal structure†

Xinsheng Peng,ab   Jian Jin,a   Noriko Kobayashi,a   Wolfgang Schmittc  and  Izumi Ichinose*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Organic Nanomaterials Center (ONC), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
E-mail: ICHINOSE.Izumi@nims.go.jp
Fax: +81-29-852-7449

b International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS, Japan

c University of Dublin, Trinity College, School of Chemistry, Dublin 2, Ireland

Abstract

Positively-charged crystalline zinc hydroxide nanostrands with a diameter of 2 nm and a length of a few micrometres rapidly grew in dilute aqueous solution of zinc nitrate and aminoethanol. The nanostrands were composed of hexagonal clusters of [Zn61(OH)116(H2O)n]6+.

Graphical abstract: Time-dependent growth of zinc hydroxide nanostrands and their crystal structure

About
Cited by
Related
Download options Please wait...

Supplementary files

Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B719497H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Dec 2007
Accepted
22 Jan 2008
First published
18 Feb 2008

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1904-1906

Permissions

Request permissions

Time-dependent growth of zinc hydroxide nanostrands and their crystal structure

X. Peng, J. Jin, N. Kobayashi, W. Schmitt and I. Ichinose, Chem. Commun., 2008, 1904 DOI: 10.1039/B719497H

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements