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Abstract
Mercury selenide nanostructures have been synthesized through a simple and convenient wet chemical route. The synthesized nanostructures have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Uv-Vis spectroscopy and high resolution trnamission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The average partcile size is found to be 10.30 nm and the nanostrcures are polycrystalline in nature. The consolidated nanostrcures exhibits semiconducting behavior in the temperature range of . The temperature variation of the conductivity has been analyzed in detail and it has been found that Mott’s variable range hopping (VRH) conduction mechanism along with weak localization, charge carrier - charge carrier interaction have significant contributions, depending over the tempearture range.