Tungsten oxide shear structure

The flow field method was extended to produce optically anisotropic mesostmctured coatings of tungsten oxide/surfactant composites showing a 3D hexagonal structure with surfactant filled channels oriented parallel to the substrate and aligned in the direction of the shear flow (Hillhouse et al., 1999). Films of the tungsten oxide/surfactant composite could not be deposited under quiescent conditions. It was necessary to quickly dry the... 

A crystallographic shear (CS) plane is a fault in which a plane of atoms has been (notionally) removed from the crystal. In oxides, this is frequently a plane of oxygen atoms, eliminated as a result of reduction. In the resulting structures, the slab types are all identical and the same as the parent phase. To illustrate this phenomenon, crystallographic shear in reduced tungsten trioxide will be described. 

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