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Laser-assisted formation of metallic oxide microtubes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

László Nánai
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Physics, József Attila University, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
Thomas F. George
Affiliation:
Office of the Chancellor/Departments of Chemistry and Physics & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin 54481–3897
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Abstract

The fabrication of metallic oxide microtubes is possible directly, without any support structure, by continuous wave infrared laser-assisted oxidation of the metal in air. The particular case presented is the growth of tube-like vanadium pentoxide microcrystals grown in our laboratories.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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