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Protein (bovine serum albumin) driven copper selenide and copper telluride nanostructures: structural, optical and electrical properties

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Copper selenide and copper telluride nanostructures were synthesized using Bovine serum albumin, for the first time, via a facile hydrothermal method. The involvement of different precursors was proposed through a probable reaction mechanism. Moreover, the structural and optical properties of the prepared Cu(2−x)Se and Cu(2−x)Te nanostructures were investigated. The average sizes of the synthesized copper selenide nanoparticles were in the range of 87 ± 24 nm. Variation in size and shape for copper telluride nanostructures gave round shape nanoparticles as well as rods in micro and nano size and average size for small and large round shape nanoparticles were 52 ± 16 nm and 216 ± 27 nm, respectively. More precisely, size-strain plot and the Williamson-Hall analysis methods were adopted to determine the lattice strain and crystalline sizes of the synthesized nanoparticles. The optical band gap energy of prepared nanoparticles estimated from the UV–Vis spectroscopy was 2.95 and 2.32 eV for Cu(2−x)Se and Cu(2−x)Te nanoparticles, indicating quantum confinement effect due to the deviation from bulk materials to the nanoscale. Moreover, the band gap decreased with enhancement of BSA concentration which suggest that the usage of BSA content is important factor and must be optimized for obtaining desired optical band gap. The electrical conductivity for copper selenide and copper telluride was found as 0.048 − 0.064 × 105 S cm−1 and 0.011 − 0.017 × 106 S cm−1 respectively.

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D. J. acknowledges financial support from National Post-Doctoral Fellowship (PDF/2017/001869), from Department of Science and Technology, SERB, India and Panjab University Chandigarh and Shoolini University for use of laboratory facilities. Authors D. J. and D. R. equally share first authorship. Author A. K. acknowledges financial support from DST INSPIRE/04/2015/001236 faculty program and facilities provide by IIT Roorkee and Panjab University. Author S.K.M. is thankful to DST- PURSE-II. Ahmad Umar would like to acknowledge the support of the Ministry of Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the Promising Centre for Sensors and Electronic Devices (PCSED) at Najran University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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  1. Department of Chemistry and Centre of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India

    Deepika Jamwal, Meenakshi Dudi & Surinder Kumar Mehta

  2. School of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Sciences, Shoolini University, Solan, 173212, Himachal Pradesh, India

    Dolly Rana & Ashish Soni

  3. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Arts and Promising Centre for Sensors and Electronic Devices (PCSED), Najran University, Najran, 11001, Saudi Arabia

    Ahmad Umar

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Jamwal, D., Rana, D., Soni, A. et al. Protein (bovine serum albumin) driven copper selenide and copper telluride nanostructures: structural, optical and electrical properties. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 30, 11317–11326 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-019-01479-7

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