Unique structure and photoluminescence of Au/CdTe nanostructure materialsElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: photoluminescence and UV-Vis spectra of Au nanoparticles, and XRD spectra of CdTe nanocrystals and Au/CdTe. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b314664b/

Unique nanostructure materials with highly ordered spherical aggregates have been obtained by self-organization of single CdTe nanocrystals using gold nanoparticles as seeds, and a red shift of the photoluminescence peak was observed.