A top-down strategy towards monodisperse colloidal lead sulphide quantum dots

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Yang, Jing ^a   Ling, Tao ^a   Wu, Wen Tian ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Gao, Min Rui ^a   Ling, Chen ^a   Li, Lan ^b   Du, Xi Wen ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 DODECANETHIOL; LEAD SULFIDE; NANOCRYSTAL; QUANTUM DOT; SULFUR; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COLLOID; CRYSTALLINITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION BALANCE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VAPORIZATION;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; LASER;

EID: 84877737990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2637     Document Type: Article

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