Mesostructured Assemblies of Ultrathin Superlong Tellurium Nanowires and Their Photoconductivity
- 14 June 2010
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 132 (26), 8945-8952
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja910871s
Abstract
Well-defined periodic mesostructures of hydrophilic ultrathin Te nanowires with aspect ratios of at least 104 can be produced by the Langmuir−Blodgett technique without any extra hydrophobic pretreatment or functionalization. Packing the arrayed nanowire monolayers will allow construction of nanomesh-like mesostructures or more complex multilayered structures composed of ultrathin nanowires on a planar substrate. The well-organized monolayer of Te nanowires with periodic mesostructures can be readily used as a stamp to transfer such mesostructured nanopatterns to other substrates or can be embedded within a polymer matrix. The mesostructures of ultrathin Te nanowire films show reversibly switched photoelectric properties between the lower- and higher-conductivity states when the light is off and on, and the photocurrent is influenced by the light intensity and the number of mesostructured nanowire monolayer films. This method can be extended for fabrication of other mesostructured assemblies of ultrathin nanowires or nanotubes.Keywords
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