1 State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China. hu.junqing@dhu.edu.cn
Large scaled hexagonal prismatic sub-micro sized Mg crystals were grown by a vapor-liquid-solid process, and found to be sensitive to electron beam irradiation in transmission electron microscope imaging, making hollow prismatic MgO boxes.