{"id":65,"date":"2011-04-12T23:17:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T03:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:54:23","slug":"synthesis-of-one-dimensional-nanostructures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/synthesis-of-one-dimensional-nanostructures\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthesis of 1D Nanostructures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Xu group is primarily interested in synthesis and characterization of boron-based 1D nanostructures. Bulk boron-based structures are semiconductors with high melting temperature, high hardness, good mechanical properties, excellent oxidation and chemical resistance.&nbsp; The boron-based nanostructures could have better properties compared to the corresponding bulk structures, and will have potential applications in nanocomposites, nanoelectronics, MEMS and NEMS device, and high temperature thermoelectric energy conversion.&nbsp; Low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) is used to synthesis boron-related nanostructures. Both vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) and vapor-solid (VS) growth mechanisms are explored during the synthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Funding resources<\/span>: National Science Foundation, Lockheed Martin Coporation, American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund, Wachovia Faculty Fellowship<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Student Participants<\/span>: Manira Akter (current Ph.D. student), Zhiguang Cui (Ph.D. 2016), Zhe Guan (Ph.D. 2013), Syed Amin (Ph.D., 2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Previous Results<\/span>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2012\/03\/Figure-3.jpg\" alt=\"Boron carbide nanowires\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Boron carbide nanowires: J<em>ournal of Materials Chemistry<\/em>, DOI:10.1039\/C2JM14857A, (2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Table-of-Content.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Table-of-Content-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"Alkaline-earth metal hexaboride nanowires\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Table-of-Content-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Table-of-Content-1024x507.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Alkaline-earth metal hexaboride nanowires; <em>Chemistry of&nbsp; Materials<\/em>, 21(4), p763, (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Figure-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Figure-1-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"TiO2 nanowires\" class=\"wp-image-71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Figure-1-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Figure-1-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/files\/2011\/04\/Figure-1.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">TiO<span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">2<\/span> nanowires; <em>Nanotechnology<\/em> 18, 445609, (2007)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xu group is primarily interested in synthesis and characterization of boron-based 1D nanostructures. Bulk boron-based structures are semiconductors with high melting temperature, high hardness, good mechanical properties, excellent oxidation and chemical resistance.&nbsp; The boron-based nanostructures could have better properties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/synthesis-of-one-dimensional-nanostructures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/ttxu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}