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Large-scale single-crystal cubic PbS nanorods were successfully achieved by using ultrasound irradiation in certain ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) solutions, particularly in the solution of Pb:EDTA = 1:1. The obtained PbS nanorods were characterized using x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersed x-ray spectrometry, selected area electronic diffraction, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The results reveal that the PbS nanorods with straight and uniform structure have a diameter of about 70–80 nm and length of about 1000 nm, where the growth mechanism is tentatively discussed. The successful synthesis of these cubic structure semiconductor PbS nanorods may open up new possibilities for using these materials as building blocks to create functional two-dimensional or three-dimensional nanostructured materials.
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Zhou, S.M., Feng, Y.S. & Zhang, L.D. Sonochemical synthesis of large-scale single-crystal PbS nanorods. Journal of Materials Research 18, 1188–1191 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0163
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2003.0163