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 …

Rapid advances in chemical synthesis and fabrication techniques have led to a boost in
manufacturing and design of novel nanostructured materials that exhibit unique and often …

Aliphatic carboxylates are the most common class of surface ligands to stabilize colloidal
nanocrystals. The widely used approach to identify the coordination modes between surface …

Conspectus Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are near-ideal nanomaterials for energy
conversion and lighting technologies. However, their photophysics exhibits supreme …

We examine in detail the impact of passivating ligands (ie, amines, phosphines, phosphine
oxides and pyridines) on the electronic and optical spectra of Cd33Se33 quantum dots …

Understanding the pathways of hot exciton relaxation in photoexcited semiconductor
nanocrystals, also called quantum dots (QDs), is of paramount importance in multiple …

Semiconductor photocatalysts capable of broadband solar photon absorption may be
nonetheless precluded from use in driving water splitting and other solar-to-fuel related …

Exciton binding energy and electron–hole recombination probability are presented as two
important metrics for investigating effect of dot size on electron–hole interaction in CdSe …

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 …