title: General shape control of colloidal CdS, CdSe, CdTe quantum rods and quantum rod heterostructures.
abstract: We report a general synthetic method for the formation of shape-controlled CdS, CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals and mixed-semiconductor heterostructures. The crystal growth kinetics can be manipulated by changing the injection rate of the chalcogen precursor, allowing the particle shape-spherical or rodlike-to be tuned without changing the underlying chemistry. A single injection of precursor leads to isotropic spherical growth, whereas multiple injections promote epitaxial growth along the length of the c-axis. This method was extended to produce linear type I and type II semiconductor nanocrystal heterostructures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Materials Institute, Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.
authors.forename: Felice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Shieh
authors.forename: Aaron E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Brian A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Korgel