Issue 24, 2012
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Dalton Transactions

InP nanowires from surfactant-free thermolysis of single molecule precursors†‡

Chiranjib Banerjee,a   David L. Hughes,a   Manfred Bochmann*a  and  Thomas Nann*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Wolfson Materials and Catalysis Centre, School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK
E-mail: m.bochmann@uea.ac.uk
Fax: +44 (0)1603 592044

b Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes Blvd, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095, Australia
E-mail: Thomas.Nann@unisa.edu.au

Abstract

Indium phosphide nanofibres were grown from a single-molecule precursor, [(PhCH2)2InP(SiMe3)2]2, using hot injection techniques by a solution–liquid–solid (SLS) process, under “surfactant-free” conditions and without the use of protic additives. The fibres are 85–95 nm in diameter and grow from In metal droplets of 100 nm diameter. The length of the nanofibres is a function of the precursor injection temperature (rather than the growth temperature) and can be varied from 6000 nm at 210 °C to 1000 nm at 310 °C. The indium metal tip can be readily removed under mild, non-etching conditions by treatment with thiophenol–P(SiMe3)3 mixtures.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2DT30283G
Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Feb 2012
Accepted
05 Apr 2012
First published
26 Apr 2012

Dalton Trans., 2012,41, 7244-7248

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InP nanowires from surfactant-free thermolysis of single molecule precursors

C. Banerjee, D. L. Hughes, M. Bochmann and T. Nann, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41, 7244 DOI: 10.1039/C2DT30283G

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