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SUBMITTER: Mairoser T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4518251 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20150716
Epitaxy is widely employed to create highly oriented crystalline films. A less appreciated, but nonetheless powerful means of creating such films is via topotactic transformation, in which a chemical reaction transforms a single crystal of one phase into a single crystal of a different phase, which inherits its orientation from the original crystal. Topotactic reactions may be applied to epitactic films to substitute, add or remove ions to yield epitactic films of different phases. Here we explo ...[more]