Small-angle rotation in individual colloidal CdSe quantum rods

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1179-1188

  Yu, Zhiheng ^a   Hahn, Megan A ^b   Maccagnano Zacher, Sara E ^a   Calcines, Joaquin ^b   Krauss, Todd D ^b   Alldredge, Erik S ^a   Silcox, John ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Nanodiffraction; Oriented attachment; Semiconductor nanorods

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM TELLURIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); BROAD SPECTRUM; C -AXIS; DARK FIELDS; ELECTRON NANODIFFRACTION; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS; GROWTH PROCESSES; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INTERNAL STRUCTURES; NOVEL MATERIALS; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); ORIENTED ATTACHMENT; QUANTUM RODS (QR); SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (STEM);

ROTATION;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; ROTATION; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 47649133030     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn700323v     Document Type: Article

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