3D semiconducting nanostructures via inverse lipid cubic phases

M. R. Burton; C. Lei; P. A. Staniec; N. J. Terrill; A. M. Squires; N. M. White; Iris S. Nandhakumar

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06895-5

3D semiconducting nanostructures via inverse lipid cubic phases

M. R. Burton
, C. Lei
, P. A. Staniec
, N. J. Terrill
, A. M. Squires
, N. M. White
, Iris S. Nandhakumar

Department of Chemistry

University of Southampton
Diamond Light Source Ltd
University of Reading

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Abstract

Well-ordered and highly interconnected 3D semiconducting nanostructures of bismuth sulphide were prepared from inverse cubic lipid mesophases. This route offers significant advantages in terms of mild conditions, ease of use and electrode architecture over other routes to nanomaterials synthesis for device applications. The resulting 3D bicontinous nanowire network films exhibited a single diamond topology of symmetry Fd3m (Q₂₂₇) which was verified by Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and holds great promise for potential applications in optoelectronics, photovoltaics and thermoelectrics.

Original language	English
Article number	6405
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	7
Issue number	1
Early online date	25 Jul 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06895-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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We are grateful to Diamond light source for allocation of beam times SM14925 and SI10330 on beam line I22. The authors acknowledge the financial support of equipment grant (EP/K00509X/1) for the SmartLab and financial support for M. Burton (EPSRC industrial CASE award 11330323).

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