Scientists in Ireland have developed a method to convert perpendicularly aligned CdS and CdSe nanorods to their silver and copper chalcogenide equivalents. The nanorod dimensions and superlattice order remain unchanged during the process.
Such nanorods have potential applications in solar cells. The authors envisage that this new technique can be extended to other material systems.
Read the full HOT Nanoscale communication to find out more:
A facile spin-cast route for cation exchange of multilayer perpendicularly-aligned nanorod assemblies
Dervla Kelly, Ajay Singh, Christopher A. Barrett, Catriona O’Sullivan, Claudia Coughlan, Fathima R. Laffir, Colm O’Dwyer and Kevin M. Ryan
Nanoscale, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C1NR11031D
