An effective method to prepare polymer/nanocrystal composites with tunable emission over the whole visible light range

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 496-505

  Wei, Haotong ^a   Sun, Haizhu ^a,b   Zhang, Hao ^a   Gao, Cong ^a   Yang, Bai ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CdTe; Nanocrystal; Poly(p phenylene vinylene); Poly(vinyl alcohol)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954459592     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0010-z     Document Type: Article

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