Hybrid nanostructures are composed of two or more distinctive components, with each component possessing at least one dimension on the nanometre scale 1–4. Hybrid nanostructures can potentially ...

For example, tetrapods and octapods have been synthesized from zero-dimensional (0D ... 1D/2D heterostructures 23,24,25. These heterostructures are typical examples of complex 3D nanostructures ...

At the nanoscale, 1,000 times smaller than a human hair, one approaches the fundamental length scales of, for example ... nanostructures using a technique similar to a nano-3D printer.