Engineering the nanoscale morphology of a quantum dot-fullerene assembly via complementary hydrogen bonding interactions

Langmuir

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 7534-7537

  Nandwana, Vikas ^a   Serrano, Luis A ^b   Solntsev, Kyril M ^c   Ebenhoch, Bernd ^d   Liu, Qian ^a   Tonga, Gulen Y ^a   Samuel, Ifor D W ^d   Cooke, Graeme ^b   Rotello, Vincent M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDSE QUANTUM DOTS; CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY; FULLERENES (C60); HYDROGEN BONDING INTERACTIONS; INTERPENETRATED NETWORKS; NANOSCALE MORPHOLOGY;

CHARGE TRANSFER; FULLERENES; HYDROGEN BONDS; MORPHOLOGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84879164805     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la4007372     Document Type: Article

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