ZnO meso-mechano-thermo physical chemistry.

Jianwei Li,† Shouzhi Ma,‡ Xinjuan Liu, Zhaofeng Zhou,† and Chang Q Sun*,†,‡ †Institute for Quantum Engineering and Micro-Nano Energy Technology, Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Application Technologies, and Faculty of Materials and Optoelectronics and Physics, Xiangtan University, Hunan 411105, China ‡School of Electrical, and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advanced Instrument, Ministry of Education, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062 China

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