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NATURE MATERIALS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 54-59Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT2567
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- US Department of Energy (DOE), Geosciences and Biosciences Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science
- NSF [DMR-0907197]
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Cryptomelane-type manganese oxide (OMS-2) has been widely used to explore the semiconducting and catalytic properties of molecular sieves with mixed-valent frameworks. Selective synthesis of patterned thin films of OMS-2 with hierarchical nanostructures and oriented crystals is challenging owing to difficulties in preserving the mixed valence, porosity and crystalline phase. Here, we report that pulsed-laser ablation of OMS-2 in an oxygen-rich medium produces a three-dimensional nanostructured array of parallel and inclined OMS-2 fibres on bare substrates of (001) single-crystal strontium titanate. Both parallel and inclined OMS-2 fibres elongate along the [001](OMS-2) direction. The parallel fibres interact strongly with the substrate and grow epitaxially along < 110 >(STO) with lattice misfits of less than 4%, whereas the inclined fibres are oriented with (301) parallel to the substrate surface. The spontaneous orientation of the crystalline OMS-2 domains over the STO surface opens up a new avenue in lattice-engineered synthesis of multilayer materials.
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