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Aligned SiC Porous Nanowire Arrays with Excellent Field Emission Properties Converted from Si Nanowires on Silicon Wafer Yajun Yang † , Guowen Meng *† , Xianyun Liu ‡ , Lide Zhang † , Zheng Hu *§ , ...