Systematic Synthesis of Tellurium Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties: From Nanoparticles to Nanorods, Nanowires, and Nanotubes

In the past two decades, tremendous efforts have been made towards the development of synthetic strategies for nanostructured materials with well-controlled size, shape, composition, and spatial arrangement. Herein, we report a systematic study on the synthesis of tellurium nanostructures, which can evolve from nanoparticles to nanorods, nanowires, and nanotubes by a simple solution-based process. The size- and diameter-dependent optical properties of Te nanowires have been explained based on the modeling calculations using the joint density of states (JDOS).

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