One-pot synthesis of Bi2Se3 nanostructures with rationally tunable morphologies

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3612-3620

  Liu, Xianli ^a   Xu, Jinwei ^a   Fang, Zhicheng ^a   Lin, Lin ^a   Qian, Yu ^a   Wang, Youcheng ^a   Ye, Chunmiao ^a   Ma, Chao ^a   Zeng, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bi2Se3 nanostructures; mechanism study; shape control; supersaturation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946490151     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0861-4     Document Type: Article

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