TY - JOUR
T1 - Synthesis of nanorods and nanowires using biomolecules under conventional- and microwave-hydrothermal conditions
AU - Gao, Feng
AU - Lu, Qingyi
AU - Meng, Xiangkang
AU - Komarneni, Sridhar
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work is supported by the NSF MRSEC under grant number, DMR-0213623, The Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China through Grant No. 20671049 and National Basic Research Program of China through Grant No. 2004CB619305. TEM work was performed in the electron microscopy facility of the Materials Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - In this paper, we review our work on the synthesis and characterization of one-dimensional (1D) nanorods/nanowires and assemblies of inorganic materials with the assistance of several biomolecules under conventional- or microwave-hydrothermal conditions. Two classes of biomolecules have been investigated. One is sugars and their derivatives, and the other is amino acids and their polymers, peptide, and protein. With the assistance of sugars or their derivatives, different kinds of 1D elemental tellurium (Te) and selenium (Se) nanostructures with different sizes and morphologies have been obtained. With the assistance of amino acids or their polymers, 1D semiconductor sulfides and oxide nanowires and assemblies have been successfully synthesized. By providing confined spaces or serving as functional templates for site-specific nanomaterials nucleation or binding, biomolecules appear to direct the growth and/or the assembly of the nanomaterials.
AB - In this paper, we review our work on the synthesis and characterization of one-dimensional (1D) nanorods/nanowires and assemblies of inorganic materials with the assistance of several biomolecules under conventional- or microwave-hydrothermal conditions. Two classes of biomolecules have been investigated. One is sugars and their derivatives, and the other is amino acids and their polymers, peptide, and protein. With the assistance of sugars or their derivatives, different kinds of 1D elemental tellurium (Te) and selenium (Se) nanostructures with different sizes and morphologies have been obtained. With the assistance of amino acids or their polymers, 1D semiconductor sulfides and oxide nanowires and assemblies have been successfully synthesized. By providing confined spaces or serving as functional templates for site-specific nanomaterials nucleation or binding, biomolecules appear to direct the growth and/or the assembly of the nanomaterials.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10853-007-2039-2
DO - 10.1007/s10853-007-2039-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40849098020
SN - 0022-2461
VL - 43
SP - 2377
EP - 2386
JO - Journal of Materials Science
JF - Journal of Materials Science
IS - 7
ER -