Simple syntheses of CdSe quantum dots

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 274-279

  Landry, Matthew L ^a   Morrell, Thomas E ^a   Karagounis, Theodora K ^a   Hsia, Chih Hao ^a   Wang, Chia Ying ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hands On Learning Manipulatives; Inorganic Chemistry; Laboratory Instruction; Materials Science; Nanotechnology; Physical Chemistry; Quantum Chemistry; Synthesis; Upper Division Undergraduate; UV Vis Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894198310     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed300568e     Document Type: Article

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