Highly photoluminescent and stable aqueous ZnS quantum dots

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 578-582

  Li, Hui ^a   Shih, Wan Y ^a   Shih, Wei Heng ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS SYNTHESIS; BIO-IMAGING; CAPPING MOLECULES; CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURE; GOOD STABILITY; TRAP-STATE EMISSION; TRIMETHOXYSILANE; ZINC BLENDE; ZNS QUANTUM DOTS;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAGNETOPLASMA; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 75249106096     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie901086d     Document Type: Article

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