Real-Time in Situ Probing of High-Temperature Quantum Dots Solution Synthesis

Nano Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2620-2626

  Abécassis, Benjamin ^a   Bouet, Cécile ^b   Garnero, Cyril ^a   Constantin, Doru ^a   Lequeux, Nicolas ^b   Ithurria, Sandrine ^b   Dubertret, Benoit ^b   Pauw, Brian Richard ^c   Pontoni, Diego ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

CdSe; Mechanism; Nanoparticle; Nucleation; Quantum dots; SAXS

Indexed keywords

MECHANISMS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NUCLEATION; SELF ASSEMBLY; X RAY SCATTERING;

CDSE; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; FORMATION MECHANISM; MOLECULAR PRECURSOR; NANOPARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; RATE-LIMITING PROCESS; SAXS; SMALL AND WIDE ANGLE X RAY SCATTERINGS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HEAT; MATERIALS TESTING; PROCEDURES; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; SOLUTIONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84926665562     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00199     Document Type: Review

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