This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

Abstract Silicon nanocrystals (Si‐NCs) are emerging as an attractive class of quantum dots
owing to the natural abundance of silicon in the Earth's crust, their low toxicity compared to …

Strong reducing agents (<− 2.0 V vs saturated calomel electrode (SCE)) enable a wide array
of useful organic chemistry, but suffer from a variety of limitations. Stoichiometric metallic …

Nanocrystals based on halide perovskites offer a promising material platform for highly
efficient lighting. Using transient optical spectroscopy, we study excitation recombination …

Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) are semiconductor Si nanoparticles ranging from 1 to 10 nm
that hold great applicative potential as optoelectronic devices and fluorescent bio-marking …

Semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots are at last starting to emerge in commercial
applications such as flat panel displays. Meanwhile, they are also showing seriously …

An elastic continuum model has been used to analyze the effects of lattice mismatch on the
spectroscopy of InP/ZnSe and InP/ZnS nanocrystals. Lattice strain affects the vibrational …

The roles of conduction and valence band state filling and stimulated emission in the room
temperature transient absorption spectroscopy of CdSe and CdSe/CdS quantum dots are …

The effects of lattice strain on the spectroscopy and photoluminescence quantum yields of
zincblende CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots are examined. The quantum yields are …

Resonance Raman spectra and excitation profiles have been measured and
semiquantitatively modeled for core/shell quantum dots consisting of 2.7 nm diameter …