by Kate Prengaman
Image caption: The GeS "nanoflowers" have petals only 20-30 nanometers thick, and provide a large surface area in a small amount of space. Image Credit: Linyou Cao, North Carolina State University.
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Nanomaterials research isn’t just booming, it’s also blooming. Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed germanium-sulfide nanosheet structures that look like flowers-- clusters of thin petals providing a ton of surface area in a small space. They published their work on the mechanism for controlling the production of this “nanoflower” material last week in ACS Nano.
“We are basically just trying to open up a new door to nanosheet research by establishing some of the general mechanisms,” says Linyou Cao, one of the paper’s authors. “We demonstrated that the mechanism controlling these nanosheets is different from most other nanomaterials like nanowires or nanotubes.” More
Read the abstract in ACS Nano.
