Dislocation-driven growth of porous CdSe nanorods from CdSe·(ethylenediamine)(0.5) nanorods.

Porous CdSe nanorods having a novel flute-like morphology have been prepared facilely via the hydrothermal treatment of CdSe·(en)0.5 (en = ethylenediamine) nanorods as sacrificial templates. During the hydrothermal process, various crystalline imperfections such as stacking faults and twinning planes appear due to lattice mismatches between orthorhombic CdSe·(en)0.5 and hexagonal wurtzite porous CdSe nanorods and subsequently disappear to release mismatched strains. In the self-healing process of defects, due to the imbalance of in-and-out atomic diffusion, point defects of atomic vacancies are heavily generated in CdSe nanorods to produce volume defects of voids eventually. The photoluminescence of CdSe nanorods shifts to the red region and decreases in intensity with the increase of the hydrolysis time as surface states and selenium vacancies increase. The mean lifetime of photoluminescence increases with the increase of the hydrothermal-treatment time as the fractional amplitude of the surface-state-related component increases.