Acetic acid-confined synthesis of uniform three-dimensional (3D) bismuth telluridenanocrystals consisting of few-quintuple-layer nanoplatelets?

Chemical Communications Pub Date: 2011-10-13 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC14556H

Abstract

High-selectivity, uniform three-dimensional (3D) flower-like bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) nanocrystals consisting of few-quintuple-layer nanoplatelets with a thickness down to 4.5 nm were synthesized for the first time by a facile, one-pot polyol method with acetic acid as the structure-director. Micrometre-sized 2D films and honeycomb-like spheres can be obtained using the uniform 3D Bi2Te3 nanocrystals as building blocks.

Graphical abstract: Acetic acid-confined synthesis of uniform three-dimensional (3D) bismuth telluride nanocrystals consisting of few-quintuple-layer nanoplatelets
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