We got a very pleasant Easter surprise yesterday :) Our paper "Non-equilibrium transformation of titanate nanowires to nanotubes upon mechanochemical activation" was accepted for publication in RSC Advances (2013) DOI:10.1039/C3RA40863A. This paper reports an important discovery made by Gábor Kozma: titanate nanowires can be transformed back into titanate nanotubes by applying precisely controlled mechanochemical activation. While the nanotube-to-nanowire conversion is a well-known phenomenon, this reverse reaction (nanowire-to-nanotube) is a new and unexpected finding. The importance of this reaction is that it helps us complete the scientific puzzle of titanate nanostructure interconversion pathways.
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