Author’s Accepted Manuscript Porous silicon pillar and bilayer structure as a nucleation center for the formation of aligned vanadium pentoxide nanorods R.F. Balderas-Valadez, E.E. Antúnez, S.F. Olive- Méndez, C. Pacholski, J. Campos-Alvarez, X. Bokhimi, V. Agarwal PII: S0272-8842(17)30486-8 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.03.114 Reference: CERI14883 To appear in: Ceramics International Received date: 30 November 2016 Revised date: 19 February 2017 Accepted date: 17 March 2017 Cite this article as: R.F. Balderas-Valadez, E.E. Antúnez, S.F. Olive-Méndez, C. Pacholski, J. Campos-Alvarez, X. Bokhimi and V. Agarwal, Porous silicon pillar and bilayer structure as a nucleation center for the formation of aligned vanadium pentoxide nanorods, Ceramics International http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2017.03.114 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted fo publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version o the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting galley proof before it is published in its final citable form Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain www.elsevier.com/locate/ceri