Metal, metal oxide, and metal chalcogenide materials have a wide variety of applications.
For example, many metal clusters and nanoparticles are used as catalysts for reactions …

Semiconductor magic-size clusters (MSCs), especially II–VI group compounds, are popular
materials in nanoscience research due to their unique electronic structures and optical …

One of the greatest challenges in the field of semiconductor nanomaterials is to make trap-
free nanocrystalline structures to attain a remarkable improvement of their optoelectronic …

Chiral thiol cap** ligands l-and d-cysteines induced modular chiroptical properties in
achiral cadmium selenide quantum dots (CdSe QDs). Cys-CdSe prepared from achiral oleic …

l-cysteine derivatives induce and modulate the optical activity of achiral cadmium selenide
(CdSe) and cadmium sulfide (CdS) quantum dots (QDs). Remarkably, N-acetyl-l-cysteine …

Functionalization of colloidal quantum dots (QDs) with chiral cysteine derivatives by phase-
transfer ligand exchange proved to be a simple yet powerful method for the synthesis of …

Mn-doped CsPbBr3 perovskite magic sized clusters (PMSCs) are synthesized for the first
time using benzoic acid and benzylamine as passivating ligands and MnCl2· 4H2O and …

Metal chalcogenide nanomaterials have gained widespread interest in the past two decades
for their potential optoelectronic, energy, and catalytic applications. The colloidal growth of …

Cadmium selenide nanomaterials are very important materials in photonics, catalysis, and
biomedical applications due to their optical properties that can be tuned through size, shape …

In this work, we build a benchmark data set of geometrical parameters, vibrational normal
modes, and low-lying excitation energies for MX quantum dots, with M= Cd, Zn, and X= S …