Self-assembled single-crystalline ZnO nanostructures

Lifang Chen; Juncheng Hu; Feng Lin; Christopher Cadigan; Wenrong Cao; Zhiwen Qi; Marta Pozuelo; Sergey V. Prikhodko; Suneel Kodambaka; Ryan M. Richards

doi:10.1039/C3CE40167G

Self-assembled single-crystalline ZnO nanostructures†

Lifang Chen,^a Juncheng Hu,^b Feng Lin,^c Christopher Cadigan,^b Wenrong Cao,^a Zhiwen Qi,*^a Marta Pozuelo,^d Sergey V. Prikhodko,^d Suneel Kodambaka^d and Ryan M. Richards*^c

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^a State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
E-mail: zwqi@ecust.edu

^b Key Lab of Catalysis and Materials Science of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission & Ministry of Education, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan 430074, China

^c Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
E-mail: rrichard@mines.edu

^d Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Abstract

We report a template-free, halide-free, efficient wet chemical method to synthesize defect-rich ZnO nanostructures with exposed {10 [1 with combining macron] 1} facets. The self-assembled ZnO nanostructures provide an active playground for catalytic reactions, such as CO₂ hydrogenation, and exhibits great potential in alternative energy technologies.

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