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Nanowires (NWs) and nanobelts (NBs) are considered as ideal building blocks for constructing nanosized devices due to high surface to volume ratio and their special physical and chemical properties resulting from the reduced sizes. Until now, many semiconductor NWs/NBs have been successfully applied in nanodevices, including nanolasers,1 nanogenerators,2 and various chemical and biological nano...