Growth mechanism of cadmium sulfide nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 304-308

  Viswanatha, Ranjani ^a   Amenitsch, Heinz ^b   Santra, Sanjitarani ^a   Sapra, Sameer ^a   Datar, Suwarna S ^a   Zhou, Yu ^c   Nayak, Saroj K ^c   Kumar, Sanat K ^d   Sarma, D D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Institut of Biophysics and X ray Structure Sciences   (Austria)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoparticles and nanostructures

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; CADMIUM SULFIDE NANOCRYSTALS; CDS NANOCRYSTALS; COARSENING PROCESS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; REACTION PATHWAYS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-RESOLVED; WAGNER THEORY;

BIOACTIVITY; CADMIUM; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT; RATE CONSTANTS; X RAY SCATTERING;

GROWTH KINETICS;

EID: 77149151932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz9001339     Document Type: Article

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