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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 163-169Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102079
Keywords
copper; laser chemistry; nanoparticles; semiconductors; spherical particles
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [20360340]
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The development of a general method to fabricate spherical semiconductor and metal particles advances their promising electrical, optical, magnetic, plasmonic, thermoelectric, and optoelectric applications. Herein, by using CuO as an example, we systematically demonstrate a general bottom-up laser processing technique for the synthesis of submicrometer semiconductor and metal colloidal spheres, in which the unique selective pulsed heating assures the formation of spherical particles. Importantly, we can easily control the size and phase of resultant colloidal spheres by simply tuning the input laser fluence. The heatingmeltingfusion mechanism is proposed to be responsible for the size evolution of the spherical particles. We have systematically investigated the influence of experimental parameters, including laser fluence, laser wavelength, laser irradiation time, dispersing liquid, and starting material concentration on the formation of colloidal spheres. We believe that this facile laser irradiation approach represents a major step not only for the fabrication of colloidal spheres but also in the practical application of laser processing for micro- and nanomaterial synthesis.
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