Issue 2, 2012

Size-, shape-, and assembly-controlled synthesis of Cu2−xSe nanocrystalsvia a non-injection phosphine-free colloidal method

Abstract

In this paper, we report a facile, “green”, phosphine-free, low-cost, and non-injection method to obtain size-, shape-, and assembly-controllable Cu2−xSe nanocrystals which can be used as uniform building blocks. Different sizes of monodispersed Cu2−xSe nanocrystals were synthesized successfully by simply controlling the reaction temperature. The highly uniform Cu2−xSe nanocrystals can be well controlled from 4 to 20 nm when the temperature was set from 120 to 200 °C. By changing the ratios of CuSt2, oleic acid (OA), oleylamine (OAM), and selenium-octadecene (Se-ODE) precursor, Cu2−xSe nanocrystals with different shapes (hexagonal, elongated hexagonal bipyramid-shaped, trigonal pyramidal-shaped) and assembly behaviors (hexagonal Cu2−xSe nanodiscs with 1D, 2D, and 3D columnar self-assembly, elongated hexagonal bipyramid-shaped Cu2−xSe with 2D and 3D self-assembly, trigonal pyramidal-shaped Cu2−xSe nanocrystals with different arrays) were obtained indeed. Even though both OA and OAM were used as stabilizers to synthesize different shaped Cu2−xSe nanocrystals, FTIR results indicated that the surface of the as-synthesized nanocrystals was only capped by OAM. XRD studies confirmed that three different shapes of Cu2−xSe nanocrystals prepared with this non-injection method are all cubic berzelianite and well-crystallized. Current–voltage (IV) behaviors of different shaped Cu2−xSe nanocrystals were measured and all found to have low resistivities.

Graphical abstract: Size-, shape-, and assembly-controlled synthesis of Cu2−xSe nanocrystalsvia a non-injection phosphine-free colloidal method

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Jul 2011
Accepted
22 Sep 2011
First published
03 Nov 2011

CrystEngComm, 2012,14, 555-560

Size-, shape-, and assembly-controlled synthesis of Cu2−xSe nanocrystalsvia a non-injection phosphine-free colloidal method

H. Shen, H. Wang, H. Yuan, L. Ma and L. S. Li, CrystEngComm, 2012, 14, 555 DOI: 10.1039/C1CE05887H

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