Special Role for Zinc Stearate and Octadecene in the Synthesis of Luminescent ZnSe Nanocrystals

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3797-3800

  Banski, Mateusz ^a   Afzaal, Mohammad ^b   Malik, Mohammad A ^c   Podhorodecki, Artur ^a   Misiewicz, Jan ^a   O'Brien, Paul ^c  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; LUMINESCENCE; NANOCRYSTALS; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZINC METALLOGRAPHY; ZINC SELENIDE; ZINC SULFIDE;

NANOCRYSTAL (NCS); OCTADECENE; SYNTHETIC APPROACH; ZINC BLENDE; ZINC STEARATE; ZNSE NANOPARTICLES;

SELENIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84931275637     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00347     Document Type: Article

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