A facile route to synthesise silica shell free silicide nanowires

• Main Authors: Li, Shaozhou, Cai, Hui, Gan, Chee Lip, Guo, Jun, Ma, Ja
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96567; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/11579
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report a new synthesis route to form single-crystalline silicide nanowires (NWs) with the assistance of the reaction between SiO2 and Na2O, which has been intensively studied by glass industry for a century. Rare earth silicide NWs epitaxially grown on the clean silicon substrate surface has been...