In keeping with the festive season, December’s Crystal Clear is a fantastic tinsel-like CdS nanostructure. The christmassy nanowires were created on Cd-coated copper foils via a solvothermal reaction combined with electroplating.
This eyecatching image is taken from an article in Issue 1 2011, by Xiangmin Meng and co-workers at Hefei University of Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Magnificent CdS three-dimensional nanostructure arrays: the synthesis of a novel nanostructure family for nanotechnology
Xinzheng Lan, Yang Jiang, Huangming Su, Shanying Li, Di Wu, Xinmei Liu, Tingting Han, Ling Han, Kaixuan Qin, Honghai Zhong and Xiangmin Meng
CrystEngComm, 2011, 13, 145-152
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00093K, Paper
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