One-pot synthesis of CdSe magic-sized nanocrystals using selenium dioxide as the selenium source compound

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 230, Issue , 2013, Pages 466-474

  Liu, Xinmei ^a   Jiang, Yang ^b   Guo, Weimin ^a   Lan, Xinzheng ^b   Fu, Fengming ^a   Huang, Wenyi ^a   Li, Lijun ^a  

^a GUANGXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

CdSe; Degree of supersaturation; Magic sized quantum dots; Non injection one pot approach; Selenium dioxide

Indexed keywords

CDSE; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY SPECTROSCOPY; LONG-CHAIN FATTY ACIDS; ONE POT; REGULATION AND CONTROL; SELENIUM DIOXIDE; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; X-RAY DIFFRACTION SPECTROSCOPY;

LIGANDS; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SUPERSATURATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84880787579     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.06.116     Document Type: Article

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