The zone-refine driven growth of jellyfish-like core-shell nanowires.

Thermal evaporation of a Sn-silica mixture produces core-shell nanowires assembled into jellyfish-like structures. The growth mechanism involves zone-refine driven phase separation at the solid-liquid interface. The materials emit blue and red lights; the luminescence centers are discussed and verified.

Oscillation induced worm-like locomotion of carbon nanotubes.

Harmonic oscillation of a doubly clamped single-walled carbon nanotube rope is significantly damped by the resistive force of friction at intertube contacts and the energy transmission rate has been estimated to be lower than that on a metal wire excited at similar frequency and vibrating length by one order of magnitude.