**Meet the editor**

Simas Rackauskas secured his PhD in Physics at Aalto University, Finland, in 2011. He was a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Turin (Italy). He also held post-doctoral positions in Aalto University (Finland) and the State University of Campinas (Brazil). He had fellowships at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), Technical University

of Denmark (DTU), and University of Nagoya (Japan). His research interests are mainly focused on non-catalytic growth of metal oxide nanowires, application in sensing, carbon nanomaterials, and flexible electronics.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Nanotubes 3** Dereje Seifu

**Section 2 Applications 53**

Marshall

**Section 1 Synthesis and Characterization 1**

Chapter 1 **Nanowires of Fe/MgO/Fe Encapsulated in Carbon**

Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun

Chapter 3 **Analysis of Electrochemical and Structurally Enhanced LiMn2O4 Nanowire Cathode System 39**

Chapter 2 **Diamond Nanowire Synthesis, Properties and Applications 17**

Natasha Ross, Shane Willenberg and Emmanuel Iwuoha

Chapter 4 **Nanowires for Room-Temperature Mid-Infrared Emission 55**

Chapter 5 **Parasitic Capacitances on Scaling Lateral Nanowire 75** Uttam Kumar Das and Tarun Kanti Bhattacharyya

Chapter 6 **Magnetoresistance and Structural Characterization of**

**Electrospun La1−xSrxMnO3 Nanowire Networks 95**

Xian Lin Zeng, Thomas Karwoth, Anjela Koblischka-Veneva, Michael R. Koblischka, Jörg Schmauch, Uwe Hartmann and Thomas Hauet

Aiyeshah Alhodaib, Yasir J. Noori, Anthony Krier and Andrew R.J.
