Abstract. The solution-phase synthesis of hollow micro- and nanostructures by using suitable templates such as hard templates, soft templates and reactive templates has attracted considerable attention in recent years. This paper is focused on the template synthesis of inorganic hollow structures with tailored size, morphology, and architecture, with emphasis on the templating strategies re…
Hexagonally patterned arrays of well-aligned, regular ZnO nanopillars with controlled size, shape, and orientation were directly fabricated on zinc foils via a facile wet chemical approach with the assistance of monolayer colloidal crystals (MCC). Two kinds of templates that were derived from MCC, i.e., inverted MCC (IMCC) and connected MCC (CMCC), were employed as masks to define the growth…