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Phase Control Growth of InAs Nanowires by Using Bi Surfactant

Coatings 2022, 12(2), 250; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12020250
by Samra Saleem 1, Ammara Maryam 1, Kaneez Fatima 1, Hadia Noor 2, Fatima Javed 1 and Muhammad Asghar 1,3,*
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Coatings 2022, 12(2), 250; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12020250
Submission received: 20 January 2022 / Revised: 6 February 2022 / Accepted: 11 February 2022 / Published: 15 February 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coatings for Energy Efficient Buildings)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors described the synthesis and characterization of InAs nanowires under a phase control by Bi surfactant.

the synthetic approach is interesting and accurate but in my opinion, it results not enough. The authors have to motivate and explain better why this nanomaterial is important or strategic for practical applications.

Which are the application fields? Which is the novelty and improvement involved? A comparison with the conventional materials used for the particular application is required. The SI title is Coatings for Energy-efficient Buildings, so a clear link and a connection with the  SI have to be evidenced.

How and why this nanomaterial alone or in a composite can be assumed as a coating for energy-efficient buildings? Please motivate with appropriate examples.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Your work on epitaxial  growth of InAs nanowires using molecular beam epitaxy  is well presented, but for me the main drawback is that you don't include recent references...one could find other articles mentioning the study of the growth of InAs nanowires using Bi as a surfactant... sometimes they make alloys. In your example this doesn't seem to be the case...but in Fig 2b we see 2 cubes near the nanowire...to be sure that no bismuth is present this could be confirmed by ICP analyses.

The legends of the figure could be improved (especially Figure 4a are they SEM or  TEM images? ).

and some mistakes..

  • 1. Materials and methods. ...the formation of InAs seed acts (the s is missing to the verb) also 0.1mL/sec
  •  the paragraph starting by it can be seen in fig 3 ... therefore yhe e is missing
  • the paragraph starting by fig 2 shows ... the selective area diffraction pattern of InAs NWs indicates the s is missing to the verb

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper can be accepted in the present form

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