The Methods of Fabrication of the Chalcohalide Nanostructures

This chapter provides a comprehensive review on various fabrication methods of the low-dimensional chalcohalide nanostructures, such as mechanical milling of bulk crystals, liquid-phase exfoliation, vapor phase growth, hydro/solvothermal methods, synthesis under ultrasonic irradiation, microwave synthesis, laser/heat-induced crystallization, electrospinning, successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR). A particular attention is paid to the hydrothermal, solvothermal, and sonochemical methods which are the most commonly used to synthesize the chalcohalide compounds. The chapter presents the preparation of pristine nanostructured chalcohalides as well as their composites and heterostructured materials. The parameters of the aforementioned techniques and their influence on the basic properties of the obtained products are discussed. The main advantages and limitations of the methods of chalcohalide nanomaterials preparation are also elaborated.