The subtle chemistry of colloidal, quantum-confined semiconductor nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 4573-4579

  Hughes, Barbara K ^a,b   Luther, Joseph M ^b   Beard, Matthew C ^b  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCH-TOP REACTION; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL SEMICONDUCTORS; COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS; COMPLEX NANOSTRUCTURES; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; CONFINEMENT PROPERTIES; LOW TEMPERATURES; NANO SCALE; NOVEL MATERIALS; ONE DIMENSION; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROCESS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SURFACE LIGANDS;

NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT;

LIGANDS;

NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84862862723     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302286w     Document Type: Review

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