Nano Express
Ordered Mesostructured CdS Nanowire Arrays with Rectifying Properties
Key Laboratory of Special Functional Materials, Henan University, Kaifeng, 475001, People’s Republic of China
Nanoscale Research Letters 2009, 4:414-419 doi:10.1007/s11671-008-9247-9
Published: 6 February 2009Abstract
Highly ordered mesoporous CdS nanowire arrays were synthesized by using mesoporous silica as hard template and cadmium xanthate (CdR2) as a single precursor. Upon etching silica, mesoporous CdS nanowire arrays were produced with a yield as high as 93 wt%. The nanowire arrays were characterized by XRD, N2adsorption, TEM, and SEM. The results show that the CdS products replicated from the mesoporous silica SBA-15 hard template possess highly ordered hexagonal mesostructure and fiber-like morphology, analogous to the mother template. The current–voltage characteristics of CdS nanoarrays are strongly nonlinear and asymmetrical, showing rectifying diode-like behavior.
