Rapid synthesis of CuInTe2 ultrathin nanoplates with enhanced photoelectrochemical properties

Xiao Zhang; Lei Yang; Zenglong Guo; Ge Su; Rongjie Gao; Wei Wang; Bohua Dong; Lixin Cao

doi:10.1039/C7CC03411C

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Rapid synthesis of CuInTe₂ ultrathin nanoplates with enhanced photoelectrochemical properties†

Xiao Zhang,^a Lei Yang,^a Zenglong Guo,^a Ge Su,^a Rongjie Gao,^a Wei Wang,^a Bohua Dong*^a and Lixin Cao*^a

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^a Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, 238 Songling Road, Qingdao, P. R. China
E-mail: dongbohua@ouc.edu.cn, caolixin@ouc.edu.cn

Abstract

Ultrathin (2.1 ± 0.1 nm) single-crystal CuInTe₂ two-dimensional (2D) nanoplates were synthesized via a rapid colloidal synthesis method. The growth mechanism was investigated in detail. Crystal seeds grew via a 2D assembly process of initially formed small CuInTe₂ nanoparticles followed by recrystallization into single crystal nanoplates. The obtained CuInTe₂ nanoplates exhibited significantly enhanced photoelectrochemical properties compared with the CuInTe₂ nanoparticles, benefitting from their ultrathin 2D characteristics.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C7CC03411C
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 02 May 2017
Accepted: 09 May 2017
First published: 09 May 2017

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Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 5878-5881

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Rapid synthesis of CuInTe₂ ultrathin nanoplates with enhanced photoelectrochemical properties

X. Zhang, L. Yang, Z. Guo, G. Su, R. Gao, W. Wang, B. Dong and L. Cao, Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 5878 DOI: 10.1039/C7CC03411C

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