Depending on the growth conditions,zinc oxide crystals can take on various fascinating forms.The following are just a few of them:
ZnO nanonails
ZnO tiles
ZnO mesocrystals
Find out moreabout these crystals from the papers:
Catalyst-free synthesis of single crystalline ZnO nanonails with ultra-thin caps
Xing Huang,Lidong Shao,Guang-Wei She,Meng Wang,Shu Chen and Xiang-Min Meng
CrystEngComm,2012,14,8330-8334
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26197A,Communication
Layered ZnO microcrystals with intense stimulated emission
Xia Cao,Ning Wang,Xiaomin Huang,Quanchen Feng,Long Wang,Keya Zhou,Xuejiao Gao and Jung-Ho Lee
CrystEngComm,2013,15,1715-1720
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26445E,Paper
Rapid room-temperature synthesis of nanosheet-assembled ZnO mesocrystals with excellent photocatalytic activity
Mingsong Wang,Yiping Zhang,Yajun Zhou,Fengwu Yang,Eui Jung Kim,Sung Hong Hahn and Seung Gie Seong
CrystEngComm,2013,15,754-763
DOI: 10.1039/C2CE26660A,Paper
