Expitaxial growth of size-quantized semiconductor particles at monolayers

Abstract

Demonstration of epitaxial lead sulfide (PbS),¹ lead selenide (PbSe),² and cadmium sulfide (CdS)³ growth of semiconductor nanocrystallites under monolayers represents an important milestone in molecular recognition and paves the way for our membrane-mimetic approach to advanced materials synthesis.⁴ Oriented growth of semiconductor,^4.5 as well as glycine,⁶ sodium chloride,⁷ barium sulfate,⁸ calcium carbonate,⁹ and silver propionate,¹⁰ crystallites under monolayers has, of course, been inspired by biomineralization-the selective crystallization at cell membrane surfaces.^11–13