Qing Peng and colleagues from Tsinghua University, Beijing have produced large-scale perpendicular assemblies of wurtzite CuInS2 nanorods purely by controlling the solvent evaporation rate.
Their findings will aid the development of “ink” techniques for producing thin-film solar cells.
The team synthesised a range of CuInS2 nanocrystals of different shapes and sizes by reacting inorganic salts with dodecanethiol and controlling the Cu:In ratio or introducing other ligands into the reaction system.
Read more in this CrystEngComm Hot Article for FREE until 22nd March 2011
Controlled synthesis of wurtzite CuInS2 nanocrystals and their side-by-side nanorod assemblies
Xiaotang Lu, Zhongbin Zhuang, Qing Peng and Yadong Li
CrystEngComm, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0CE00451K, Paper
