title: Biomolecule-assisted synthesis of highly ordered snowflakelike structures of bismuth sulfide nanorods.
abstract: A biomolecule-assisted simple technique has been developed for the spontaneous ordering of the Bi2S3 nanorods into snowflakelike superstructures in high yield under microwave-hydrothermal conditions. In this method, glutathione (GSH) is used as both an assembling agent and a sulfur source. By controlling the molar ratio between bismuth nitrate and glutathione as well as the synthetic temperature, several kinds of Bi2S3 one-dimensional nanomaterials such as snowflakelike structures, nanowires constructed of particles, short nanorods, and fine and long nanowires have been controllably synthesized.
authors.affiliation: Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
authors.forename: Qingyi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Sridhar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Komarneni
mesh_terms: D001729:Bismuth / Q000737:chemistry; D005978:Glutathione / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D013440:Sulfides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D013440:Sulfides; D005978:Glutathione; D001729:Bismuth; C049897:bismuth sulfide