Superstructures of PbS nanocrystals in a conjugated polymer and the aligning role of oxidation

Nanotechnology

Volumn 20, Issue 44, 2009, Pages

  Stavrinadis, Alexandros ^a   Xu, Sen ^a   Warner, Jamie H ^a   Hutchison, John L ^a   Smith, Jason M ^a   Watt, Andrew A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDATION; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EPITAXIAL RELATIONSHIPS; LEAD SULFATE; LEAD SULFIDE; MILD OXIDATION; OXIDATION RATES; PBS NANOCRYSTAL; POSTSYNTHESIS; SURFACTANT-FREE;

CONJUGATED POLYMERS;

EID: 79951621554     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/20/44/445608     Document Type: Article

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