Anisotropic heterostructures of colloidal nanocrystals embed size-, shape-, and composition-
dependent electronic structure within variable three-dimensional morphology, enabling …

Colloidal heteronanocrystals (HNCs) can be regarded as solution-grown inorganic–organic
hybrid nanomaterials, since they consist of inorganic nanoparticles that are coated with a …

3D printing of inorganic materials with nanoscale resolution offers a different materials
processing pathway to explore devices with emergent functionalities. However, existing …

One frontier approach of colloidal chemistry to nanoscale entities capable to exhibit
enhanced or even unconventional physical–chemical properties as well as diversified …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are light-emitting particles on the nanometer scale that
have emerged as a new class of fluorescent labels for chemical analysis, molecular …

One-dimensional (1D) CdS@ TiO2 core–shell nanocomposites (CSNs) have been
successfully synthesized via a two-step solvothermal method. The structure and properties …

The development of elegant synthetic methodologies for the preparation of monocomponent
nanocrystalline particles has opened many possibilities for the preparation of …

This article summarizes the main achievements and challenges in the field of the aqueous
synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots in colloidal solutions. Developments in the last two …

The recent mathematical concept of compressed sensing (CS) asserts that a small number
of well-chosen measurements can suffice to reconstruct signals that are amenable to sparse …

In the 1990s, nanoparticles and quantum dots began to be used in optical, electronic, and
biological applications. Now they are being studied for use in solid-state quantum …