Aqueous manganese-doped core/shell CdTe/ZnS quantum dots with strong fluorescence and high relaxivity

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 18752-18761

  Jing, Lihong ^a   Ding, Ke ^a   Kalytchuk, Sergii ^b   Wang, Yu ^b   Qiao, Ruirui ^a   Kershaw, Stephen V ^b   Rogach, Andrey L ^b   Gao, Mingyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDTE; COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS; CORE/SHELL; DOPANT LEVELS; MANGANESE IONS; RELAXIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE EMISSIONS;

DOPING (ADDITIVES); FLUORESCENCE; MANGANESE; ZINC SULFIDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84884200785     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406342m     Document Type: Article

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