Nanocrystal Synthesis

Comprehensive Nanoscience and Technology

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2011, Pages 153-201

  Zhong, H ^a   Mirkovic, T ^a   Scholes, G D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Colloidal chemistry; Composition control; Core shell dots; Doped nanocrystals; Nanocrystal growth; Nanocrystal heterostructures; Nanocrystal synthesis; Phase control; Quantum dots; Semiconductor nanocrystals; Shape control; Size control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941625399     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374396-1.00051-9     Document Type: Chapter

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