Nucleation and growth of CdSe nanocrystals in a binary ligand system

Langmuir

Volumn 21, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 10226-10233

  Van Embden, Joel ^a   Mulvaney, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; OLEIC ACID; RATE CONSTANTS; SOLVENTS;

BOILING POINT; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE DIAMETER; RAPID REDUCTION;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 27544502110     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la051081l     Document Type: Article

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