… oxygen onto, the nanotubes. Since the core is of neither silicon nor silicon oxide, the needle
… , as shown in Figure 1a, is a silicon nanotube. Furthermore, the upper left inset in Figure 1a …

… Due to strong attractive Van der Waals interactions, these Si nanotubes are observed to
be … nanotubes.19, 20 From atomically resolved STM images (which show a well-ordered Si …

… hydrogen at the ends of a silicon nanotube is crucial for the silicon tube to maintain a metastable
… collapses to form an irregularly shaped nanowire with mostly sp 3 hybridized Si atoms. …

… evidences confirming the presence of silicon nanotubes. … CK edge for free-standing nanotubes.
We stress that the analysis of … are mostly of silicon dioxide, while silicon nanotubes show …

… For all of these studies, the silicon nanostructures were prepared by … of silicon nanotubes
by using a surface sol–gel reaction on electrospun organic nanowires. The silicon nanotube …

… In conclusion, we report experimental evidence of having synthesized clean silicon nanotubes
showing a very thin wall smaller than that of all silicon nanotubes reported up to now. We …

… We present Si nanotubes prepared by reductive decomposition of a silicon precursor in an …
) pattern of the Si nanotubes shows the presence of the diamond cubic Si phase (Figure S3 in …

… synthesizing Si nanotubes. Recently, silicon nanotubes are reported to be grown from silicon
… It is shown that the individual Si nanotube has a hollow structure less than 4 nm in diameter …

… nanostructure geometry for silicon anodes, in the form of organized arrays of nanotubes, (2) …
exceeds that of other reported approaches for using silicon, and (3) theoretical analysis of …

… of a hypothetical material, silicon nanotubes, are examined through first-… Si nanotubes have
never been observed, this paper attempts to establish the theoretical similarities between Si …