Facile Synthesis of a Hierarchical PbTe Flower-like Nanostructure and Its Shape Evolution Process Guided by a Kinetically Controlled Regime

Complex PbTe flower-like structure was obtained through a facile and low-cost solution-phase method. Guided by the kinetically controlled regime, the morphology could be evolved into 1D nanowires and size-tunable nanocubes. This method provides an additional strategy for fabricating fcc nanocrystals and can be extended to other alloy nanostructures.