In this HOT article, in CrystEngComm, Chen and co-workers from Harbin Institute of Technology, China report on the morphology and assembly-controlled synthesis of PbTe 3D nanostructures via a facile solvothermal method. They found that the addition of different amounts of glucose can mediate the nucleation and growth of PbTe, resulting in the formation of 3D architectures from 2D nanosheets and nanocrystals. Other factors affecting the morphology such as the amount of NaOH and the volume ratio of ethanol to water, were systematically investigated. The electrical conductivity was also dependent on the morphology.
PbTe hierarchical nanostructures: solvothermal synthesis, growth mechanism and their electrical conductivities
Rencheng Jin, Gang Chen,* Qun Wang, Jian Pei, Jingxue Sun and Yang Wang
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00455C, Paper
