Luminescent quantum dots: Synthesis, optical properties, bioimaging and toxicity

J Sobhanan, JV Rival, A Anas, ES Shibu… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Luminescent nanomaterials such as semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) and quantum dots
(QDs) attract much attention to optical detectors, LEDs, photovoltaics, displays, biosensing …

Toward surface chemistry of semiconductor nanocrystals at an atomic-molecular level

H Lei, J Li, X Kong, L Wang, X Peng - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Properties of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals with a single-crystalline
structure are largely dominated by their surface structure at an atomic-molecular level, which …

Anisotropic heavy-metal-free semiconductor nanocrystals: Synthesis, properties, and applications

L Liu, B Bai, X Yang, Z Du, G Jia - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Heavy-metal (Cd, Hg, and Pb)-containing semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been
explored widely due to their unique optical and electrical properties. However, the toxicity …

LaMer's 1950 model of particle formation: a review and critical analysis of its classical nucleation and fluctuation theory basis, of competing models and mechanisms …

CB Whitehead, S Özkar, RG Finke - Materials Advances, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A review is presented of the pioneering 1950 model (VK LaMer, RH Dinegar, Theory,
Production and Mechanism of Formation of Monodispersed Hydrosols, J. Am. Chem. Soc …

Bright fluorophores in the second near-infrared window: HgSe/CdSe quantum dots

A Kamath, RD Schaller… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluorophores emitting in the NIR-IIb wavelength range (1.5–1.7 μm) show great potential for
bioimaging due to their large tissue penetration. However, current fluorophores suffer from …

Selective Formation of Monodisperse Right Trigonal-Bipyramidal and Cube-Shaped CdSe Nanocrystals: Stacking Faults and Facet-Ligand Pairing

X Zhou, J Li, X Qian, J Zhu, X Kong… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Formation of monodisperse right trigonal-bipyramidal (r TriBP) and cube-shaped CdSe
nanocrystals─ both being encased with six (100) facets─ is found to be dictated by type of …

Partitioning surface ligands on nanocrystals for maximal solubility

Z Pang, J Zhang, W Cao, X Kong, X Peng - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
A typical colloidal nanoparticle can be viewed as a nanocrystal-ligands complex with an
inorganic single-crystalline core, the nanocrystal, bonded with a monolayer of organic …

Proton shuttle-assisted surface reconstruction toward nonpolar facets-terminated zinc-blende CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots

X Zhou, C Pu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Surface reconstruction can rearrange the surface atoms of a crystal without the need of
growth processes and has the potential to synthesize crystals with novel morphologies and …

Metal cation substitution of halide perovskite nanocrystals

Y **e, A Zhou, X Zhang, Q Ou, S Zhang - Nano Research, 2022 - Springer
Recent years have seen a rapid development of lead halide perovskite (LHP) nanocrystals
(NCs) as new and promising functional nanomaterials, which exhibit strong potential in a …

Synthesis of colloidal quantum dots with an ultranarrow photoluminescence peak

L Huang, Z Ye, L Yang, J Li, H Qin… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Localization of exciton wavefunctions away from the inorganic–organic interface is proposed
for synthesizing colloidal spheroidal quantum dots (QDs) with an ultranarrow …