“…Recently, semiconductor nanostructures with high-aspect ratio, such as nanowires (NWs), nanoribbons (NRs), nanotubes (NTs), or multibranched structures, have attracted considerable attention because of the interesting physical and chemical properties that appeared in nanoscale. – To realize the practical applications of semiconductor nanostructures in nanodevices, doping is an essential issue that must be addressed to achieve the rational control of their electrical and photoelectrical properties. However, most II−VI nanostructures show n-type conductivity and p-type doping that is hard to realize because of the strong self-compensation effects. ,– Thus far, initial studies on the p-type doping of ZnO, – ZnS, and ZnSe NWs/NRs have been reported representing an exciting progress toward II−VI nanodevices. Nevertheless, the p-type doping remains a large challenge, and more experiments are needed to further develop the p-type conductivity of II−VI nanostructures in terms of doping efficiency, reliability, and reproducibility.…”