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Published on: June 18, 2013
Controlling the Interface Areas of Organic/Inorganic Semiconductor Heterojunction Nanowires for High-Performance
Zheng Xue1,2, Hui Yang2, Juan Gao2
1State Key Laboratory for Supramolecular Structures and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , Changchun 130012, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A new method of in situ electrically induced self-assembly technology combined with electrochemical deposition has been developed for the controllable preparation of organic/inorganic core/shell semiconductor heterojunction nanowire arrays. The size of the interface of the heterojunction nanowire can be tuned by the growing parameter. The heterojunction nanowires of graphdiyne/CuS with core/shell structure showed the strong dependence of rectification ratio and perfect diode performance on the size of the interface. It will be a new way for controlling the structures and properties of one-dimensional heterojunction nanomaterials.
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