... composition of the as -grown nanowires. Fig. 3(a) shows the EDXspectrum of the round tip on top of a nanowire (Fig. 2(b)),and Fig. 3(b) shows the EDX spectrum from long bundles of tangled silica nanowires ... O, 41.87 at% of Si,8.66 at% of V, 0.74 at% of Zn, and no Cl, for the catalysttip in Fig. 2(b), and 60.28 at% of O, 39.40 at% of Si,0.32 at% of V, and no Zn or Cl, for the long nanowires inFig. ... cotton-like nanowires has been obtained by Lee et al. [25] grown on TiN/Ni/Si and TiN/Ni/SiO2substrates.ARTICLE IN PRESSFig. 1. Low magnification SEM images of the amorphous silica nanowires deposited...