Simple and Generalized Synthesis of Semiconducting Metal Sulfide Nanocrystals

✍ Scribed by Sang-Hyun Choi; Kwangjin An; Eung-Gyu Kim; Jung Ho Yu; Jeong Hyun Kim; Taeghwan Hyeon

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 702 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1616-301X
• DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200800832

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Uniform‐sized semiconducting nanocrystals of binary metal sulfides are synthesized from the thermolysis of metal‐oleate complexes in alkanethiol. The size of the Cu~2~S nanocrystals can be tuned from 7 to 20 nm by varying the reaction conditions. Various shaped nanocrystals of CdS, ZnS, MnS, and PbS are synthesized from the thermal reaction of metal‐oleate complex in alkanethiol.