AUTHOR=Fridman Helena , Tian Liang , Shreteh Karam , Volokh Michael , Mokari Taleb 

TITLE=Selective Growth of Metal Sulfide, Metal, and Metal-Alloy on 2D CdS Nanoplates

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Materials

VOLUME=Volume 6 - 2019

YEAR=2020

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/materials/articles/10.3389/fmats.2019.00345

DOI=10.3389/fmats.2019.00345

ISSN=2296-8016

ABSTRACT=Two-dimensional CdS-based hybrid nanostructures are intriguing materials with an application prospect in different fields such as sensing (i.e., photoresistors) and solar energy harvesting (photocatalysis, photovoltaics, and so forth). We report herein a colloidal synthetic path for interfacing metal and semiconductor with 2D CdS nanoplates. Selective growth of Au, Pt, and a PtNi alloy as well as Cu2–xS semiconductor is achieved on CdS nanoplates using controlled reduction of metallic precursors and thermal decomposition of a metal-sulfide single-source precursor using standard organic-phase colloidal chemistry.