Preparation of cadmium telluride nanoparticles from aqueous solutions by sonochemical method

Materials Letters

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-59

  Ban, Irena ^a,b   Kristl, Matjaž ^a   Danč, Valerija ^c   Danč, Anita ^c   Drofenik, Miha ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Center of Excellence NAMASTE   (Slovenia)

^c Elementary School   (Slovenia)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Cadmium telluride; Nanoparticles; Sonochemistry

Indexed keywords

CDTE; CDTE NANOPARTICLES; INCREASED TEMPERATURE; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; QUALITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; SONOCHEMICAL; SONOCHEMICAL METHOD; XRD;

CADMIUM; CADMIUM CHLORIDE; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HYDRATES; NANOPARTICLES; SOLUTIONS; SONOCHEMISTRY; THERMOANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CADMIUM TELLURIDE;

EID: 80053511661     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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