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We report a new morphology of wurzite cadmium sulfide with nanoparticles decorated on rod-bundle structures, which were synthesized via calcinations of an inorganic/organic composite at 400 °C in air. The composite was hydrothermally synthesized at 180 °C using thioglycolic acid (TGA) and cadmium acetate as starting materials. The structure, composition, and morphology of the prepared material were characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscope, FT-IR spectrometry, photoluminescence spectrometry, and UV–visible spectrometry. Results indicated that the composite could be defined as CdS 0.65/Cd–TGA0.35. X-ray diffraction revealed that the annealed product is CdS with wurtizite phase. The diameter of the rod is about 150–400 nm and the length from the top to the bottom of the decorated nanoparticle is about 100 nm. The composite showed high intensity of photoluminescence with similar peak position, compared to that of wurtzite CdS, because of the structure defects.
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We greatly acknowledge the financial support from 973 Project of China (Grant No. 2005CB623601) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 20901072).
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Pan, J., Xi, B., Li, J. et al. Cadmium sulfide rod-bundle structures decorated with nanoparticles from an inorganic/organic composite. J Nanopart Res 13, 3535–3543 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-011-0277-3
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