Ligand-induced changes in the characteristic size-dependent electronic energies of CdSe nanocrystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 22401-22411

  Bloom, Brian P ^a   Zhao, Liu Bin ^a,b   Wang, Yang ^a   Waldeck, David H ^a   Liu, Ruibin ^c   Zhang, Peng ^c   Beratan, David N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDSE NANOPARTICLES; DIFFERENTIAL PULSE VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; PHENYLPHOSPHONIC ACIDS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; SIZE-DEPENDENT EFFECT; VALENCE BAND EDGES;

NANOPARTICLES; VOLTAMMETRY;

LIGANDS;

EID: 84887204091     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp403164w     Document Type: Article

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