Development of crystalline Cu2S nanowires via a direct synthesis process and its potential applications

Chih Yen Chen; Jian Ru Jiang; Wen Shuo Chuang; Ming Song Liu; Sheng Wei Lee

doi:10.3390/nano10020399

Development of crystalline Cu2S nanowires via a direct synthesis process and its potential applications

Chih Yen Chen^*
, Jian Ru Jiang
, Wen Shuo Chuang
, Ming Song Liu
, Sheng Wei Lee

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Electrophysics

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Large-scale and uniform copper(I) sulfide (Cu2S) nanowires have been successfully synthesized via a cheap, fast, easily handled, and environmentally friendly approach. In addition to the reductive properties of the biomolecule-assisted method, they also have a strong shape-or size-directing functionality in the reaction process. The field-emission properties of the Cu2S nanowires in a vacuum were studied by the Folwer–Nordheim (F–N) theory. The Cu2S nanowires have a low turn-on field at 1.19 V/μm and a high enhancement factor (β) of 19,381. The photocatalytic degradation of Cu2S nanowires was investigated by the change in the concentrations of rhodamine B (RhB) under UV illumination. These outstanding results of Cu2S nanowires indicate that they will be developed as good candidates as electron field emitters and chemical photocatalysts in future nanoelectronic devices.

Original language	English
Article number	399
Journal	Nanomaterials
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10020399
State	Published - Feb 2020

Keywords

Cu2S nanowires
Environmentally friendly approach
Field emission
Nanomaterials
Photocatalytic degradation
Vacuum

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