Depositing ZnS shell around ZnSe core nanocrystals in aqueous media via direct thermal treatment

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 375, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 109-116

  Wu, Ping ^a   Fang, Zheng ^a   Zhong, Xinhua ^a   Yang, Yong Ji ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Core shell nanocrystals; Photoluminescence; ZnSe ZnS

Indexed keywords

CHELATION; CHEMICAL STABILITY; HEAT TREATMENT; LIGANDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PH EFFECTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SULFUR; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); ZINC SULFIDE;

AQUEOUS MEDIA; CHEMICAL OXIDATION; CORE/SHELL; CORE/SHELL NANOCRYSTALS; CORE/SHELL STRUCTURE; GLUTATHIONES; MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; PH VALUE; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE EMISSION; PL EFFICIENCY; PL EMISSION; QUENCHING EFFECT; REACTION SOLUTIONS; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SULFUR SOURCE; THERMAL TREATMENT; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; ZNSE/ZNS;

NANOCRYSTALS;

GLUTATHIONE; MERCAPTOPROPIONIC ACID; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; PROPIONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONPHOTOCHEMICAL QUENCHING; PH; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTOOXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; THERMAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 78751608729     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2010.11.070     Document Type: Article

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