简介:Zn2SnO4(ZTO)nanowireswithauniquedendriticnanostructureweresynthesizedviaasimpleone-stepthermalevaporationandcondensationprocess.ThemorphologyandmicrostructureoftheZTOnanodendritehavebeeninvestigatedbymeansoffieldemissionscanningelectronmicroscopy(SEM),x-raydiffraction(XRD)andhigh-resolutiontransmissionelectronmicroscopy(HRTEM).SEMobservationrevealedtheformationofbranchednanostructuresandshowedthateachbranchexhibitedauniqueperiodicstructureformedbyarowofoverlaidrhombohedraofZTOnanocrystalsalongtheaxisofthenanobranch.HRTEMstudiesdisplayedthatthebranchesgrewhomoepitaxiallyassingle-crystallinenanowiresfromtheZTOnanowirebackbone.ApossiblegrowthmodelofthebranchedZTOnanowiresisdiscussed.Tosuccessfullypreparebranchedstructureswouldprovideanopportunityforbothfundamentalresearchandpracticalapplications,suchasthree-dimensionalnanoelectronics,andopto-electronicnanodevices.