Preface
List of Contributors
I. Nanodevices Based on Nanowires and Nanobelts
Chapter 1. Nanodevice, Nanosensors and Nanocantilevers Based on Semiconducting
Oxide Nanobelts (Zhong Lin Wang)
1. Introduction
2. Field-Effect Transistor Based on Single Nanobelts
3. Oxygen Sensor Using a Single Nanobelt.
4. Photoconductivity of Nanobelts
5. Gas Sensors Based on Nanobelts
6. Heat Transport Through Nanob~lt.
7. Nanobelt as Nanoresonators.
8. Nanobelts as Nanocantilever.
9. Summary.
Chapter 2. Oxide Nanowires and Nanolasers (Peidong Yang and Haoquan Yan)
1. Introduction
2. Synthesis and Characterization of ZnO Nanowires
3. Controlled Growth of ZnO Nanowires.
4. Photoluminescence and Lasing Properties.
5. Nonlinear Optical Mixing in Single Zinc Oxide Nanowires
6. Photoconductive Oxide Nanowires as Nanoscale Optoelectronic Switches
7. Room Temperature NO2 Photochemical Sensing
8. Conclusions and Outlook.
II. Functional Oxide Nanowires and Nanobelts
Chapter 3. Nanobelts and Nanostructures of Transparent Conducting Oxides (Zhong
Lin Wang)
1. Synthesis Method.
2. Oxide Nanobelts
3. Synthesis of New Materials using Nanobelts as Template
4. Complex Nanobelt Structures.
5. Nanosheets
6. Nanodiskettes.
7. Planar Defects in Oxide Nanobelts
8. Growth Mechanism
9. Summary
Chapter 4. Nanomechanics and Mechanical Behavior of Nanobelts (Scott X. Mao)
1. Nanomechanical Behavior of Semiconducting Zinc Oxide Single Nanobelt
2. Bending and Cutting' on Nanorodes, Nanotube and Nanobelt Using AFM Tip.
3. Bending and Fundamental Resonance Frequency of Nanotube Under TEM
4. Electromechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotube.
5. Revolutionary Nanowires with a Twist
Chapter 5. Ferroelectric Nanowires Jonathan E. Spanier, Jeffrey J. Urban, Lian
Ouyang, Wan Soo Yun and Hongkun Park)
1. Introduction
2. Synthesis of BaTiO3 and SrTiO3 Nanowires
3. Scanned Probe Measurements of BaTiO3 Nanowires .
4. Conclusion and Future Prospects
Chapter 6. Growth of Oxide Nanorods through Sol Electrophoretic,Deposition (Steven
J. Limmer and Guozhong Cao)
1. Introduction
2. Sol-Gel Processing
3. Electrophoretic Deposition
4. Experimental
5. Various Oxide Nanorods.
6. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7. Nanowires of Functional Oxides (Guangh0u Wang)
1. Introduction
2. From Nanoclusters to Nanowires of Titanium Oxides
3. Layered Structures of Potassium Hexatitanate Nanowhisker
4. Rutile Stannic Ox'ide Nanorods
5. Cu20 Nanowires
6. V205 Nanofibres
7. Potential Applications
Chapter 8. Controlled Growth and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanostructures
(Yue Zhang and Ying Dai)
1. Introduction
2. Experimental.
3. Nanostructures of ZnO
4. Growth Mechanism
5. Optical Properties of ZnO Nanostructures
6. Conclusions
Chapter 9. One-Step Hydrothermal Synthesis and Characterizations of Titanate
Nanostructures (L.-M. Peng, Q. Chen, G. H. Du, S. Zhang and W. Z. Zhou)
1. Introduction
2. Experimental Procedures.
3. Structural Characterization
4. Growth Mechanism
5. Electric and Optical Properties
6. Conclusions
Chapter 10. Nanowires and Nanotubes of Complex Oxides(Xun Wang, Xiaoming Sun, Jian
Xu and Yadong Li)
1. Oxides of Nanowires Based on Vapor-Transport Method
2. Template-Confined Method to Oxides of Nanowires.
3. Solution-Based Synthetic Way to Oxides 1-D Nanostructures
4. Prospects.
Chapter 11. Silica Nanowires/Nanotubes (Jing Zhu, W. X. Sun and Jun Luo)
1. Synthesis of Silica Nanowires/Nanotubes
2. Characterization of Structures and Properties of Silica Nanowires/Nanotubes .
III. Sulphide, Polymer and Composite Nanowires
Chapter 12. Sulphide Nanowires (Shihe Yang)
1. Introduction.
2. From OD to 1D Sulphides
3. Growth of Sulphide Nanowires
4. Structural, Electronic, Optical, and Transport Properties
5. Potential Applications
6. Summary and Prospects.
Chapter 13. Generalized Solution Synthesis of Large Arrays of Extended and
Oriented Nanowires (Jun Liu, Zhengrong R. Tian, James A. Voigt,
Matthew J. Mcdermott and Bonnie Mckenzie)
1. Introduction
2. General Approach
3. Results and Discussions.
4. Summary.
Chapter 14. Composite Nanowires (Yuegang Zhang)
1. Introduction
2. Phase Separation in Multi-Elemental Nanotubes
3. Filling in Carbon Nanotubes.
4. Coaxial Nanocables
5. Summary and Prospect of Composite Nanowires . . .
Chapter 15. Polymer Nanowires and Nanofibers (Liming Dai and Darrell H. Reneker)
1. Introduction
2. Nanofibrillar Conducting Polymers
3. Template Syntheses of Polymer Nanowires
4. Syntheses of Polymer Nanowires at a Scanning Microscope Tip
5. Electrospinning of Polymer Nanofibers
6. Polymer Nanowires and Nanofibers with Special Architectures
7. Summary