... simple large-scale synthesis of very long alignedsilica nanowires J.Q. Hu1, Y. Jiang, X.M. Meng, C.S. Lee, S.T. Lee*Department of Physics and Materials Science, Center of Super-Diamond and ... spectroscopy, and photoluminescence. The obtained SiO2 nanowires had no metal contaminations, ultralong lengths of millimeters, and most diameters of $50 nm. The PLspectra of the SiO2 nanowires ... pyrolysis of mixture of Si and SiO powders. Recently, Pan et al. [8] have devel-oped a molten gallium-catalyzed vapor–liquid–solid (VLS) process for the growth of bundles of highly aligned and packed...