Huang C, Mao J, Chen X M, Yang J, Du X W
Institute of New-Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Feb 7;51(11):2145-8. doi: 10.1039/c4cc09276g. Epub 2015 Jan 2.
A laser-activated-catalyst (LAC) technique was developed to grow CdSe nanowires in liquid medium at room temperature. The gold catalysts dispersed in the precursor solution were activated by a pulsed laser so as to decompose the precursor and catalyse the nanowire growth simultaneously. The LAC technique can achieve accurate positioning of nanowires, which is beneficial for device fabrication.