Peng Xinsheng, Jin Jian, Kobayashi Noriko, Schmitt Wolfgang, Ichinose Izumi
Organic Nanomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2008 Apr 28(16):1904-6. doi: 10.1039/b719497h. Epub 2008 Feb 18.
Positively-charged crystalline zinc hydroxide nanostrands with a diameter of 2 nm and a length of a few micrometres rapidly grew in dilute aqueous solution of zinc nitrate and aminoethanol. The nanostrands were composed of hexagonal clusters of Zn(61)(OH)(116)(H(2)O)(n).