title: Laser-activated gold catalysts for liquid-phase growth of cadmium selenide nanowires.
abstract: A laser-activated-catalyst (LAC) technique was developed to grow CdSe nanowires in liquid medium at room temperature. The gold catalysts dispersed in the precursor solution were activated by a pulsed laser so as to decompose the precursor and catalyse the nanowire growth simultaneously. The LAC technique can achieve accurate positioning of nanowires, which is beneficial for device fabrication.
authors.affiliation: Institute of New-Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China. maojing@tju.edu.cn xwdu@tju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: X M
authors.initials: XM
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: X W
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Du