Functional oxides have a wide variety of applications in the electronic industry. The discovery of new metal oxides with interesting and useful properties continues to drive much research in chemistry, physics, and materials science. In Functional Oxides five topical areas have been selected to illustrate the importance of metal oxides in modern materials chemistry: Noncentrosymmetric Inorganic Oxide Materials, Geometrically Frustrated Magnetic Materials, Lithium Ion Conduction in Oxides, Thermoelectric Oxides Transition Metal Oxides-Magnetoresistance and Half-Metallicity. The contents highlight structural chemistry, magnetic and electronic properties, ionic conduction and other emerging areas of importance, such as thermoelectricity and spintronics. After 3 years of effort, single-crystalline Cu2O octahedral has been synthesized through electrochemical deposition. In addition we have studied the Microstructure and Physical Properties of Fe2O3 nanowires, CuO nanowire, Cu2O nanocubes and Cu2O octahedral.
Key Publications:
[1]. R. S. Cai, T. Li, Y. Q. Wang, C. Wang, L. Yuan, G. W. Zhou, Formation of modulated structures in single-crystalline hexagonal a-Fe2O3 nanowires, Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 14(8), 1073 (2012).
[2]. Lu Yuan, Yiqian Wang, Rongsheng Cai, Qike Jiang, Jianbo Wang, Boquan Li, Guangwen Zhou, The origin of hematite nanowire growth during the thermal oxidation of iron, Materials Science and Engineering B, 177(3), 327-336 (2012).
[3]. Q. T. Du, J. S. Tan, Q. T. Wang, C. Y. Li, X. H. Liu, R. S. Cai, Y. H. Ding, Y. Q. Wang, Electrochemical deposition and formation mechanism of single-crystalline Cu2O octahedra on aluminum, Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, 2012, 406162/1-8 (2012).
[4]. Rediola Mema, Lu Yuan, Qingtian Du, Yiqian Wang, Guangwen Zhou, Effect of surface stresses on CuO nanowire growth in the thermal oxidation of copper, Chemical Physics Letters, 512(1-3), 87-91 (2011).
[5]. Lu Yuan, Yiqian Wang, Rediola Mema, Guangwen Zhou Driving force and growth mechanism for spontaneous oxide nanowire formation during the thermal oxidation of metals, Acta Materialia, 59(6), 2491-2500 (2011).
[6]. Y. Q. Wang, W. S. Liang, A. Satti, K. Nikitin, Fabrication and microstructure of Cu2O nanocubes, Journal of Crystal Growth, 312(9), 1605-1609 (2010).
