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Springs, Rings, and Spirals of Rutile-Structured Tin Oxide Nanobelts
February 2006
February 2006
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Abstract
Single-crystalline springs, rings, and spirals have been discovered for the first
time in rutile-structured SnO2. The formation process is proposed for minimizing the
electrostatic energy due to the polar charges on the (011) surfaces. These structures
are not only ideal systems for fundamental understanding of the polarization effect
on the morphology at the nanoscale level but also have potential applications as nanoscale
sensors, resonators, and transducers.