Chemistry and properties of nanocrystals of different shapes

C Burda, X Chen, R Narayanan, MA El-Sayed - Chemical reviews, 2005‏ - ACS Publications
The field of nanocatalysis (in which nanoparticles are used to catalyze reactions) has
undergone an exponential growth during the past decade. Two types of studies have been …

Core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals

P Reiss, M Protiere, L Li - small, 2009‏ - Wiley Online Library
Colloidal core/shell nanocrystals contain at least two semiconductor materials in an
onionlike structure. The possibility to tune the basic optical properties of the core …

Down conversion materials for solid‐state lighting

J McKittrick, LE Shea‐Rohwer - Journal of the American …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
The wavelength down conversion approach to solid‐state lighting (SSL) uses down
conversion materials to produce visible light when excited by near‐UV or blue emission from …

Preparation and growth mechanism of gold nanorods (NRs) using seed-mediated growth method

B Nikoobakht, MA El-Sayed - Chemistry of materials, 2003‏ - ACS Publications
A method is used for preparing gold NRs with aspect ratios ranging from 1.5 to 10 for which
the surface plasmon absorption maxima are between 600 and 1300 nm. This method has …

Size matters: why nanomaterials are different

E Roduner - Chemical society reviews, 2006‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Gold is known as a shiny, yellow noble metal that does not tarnish, has a face centred cubic
structure, is non-magnetic and melts at 1336 K. However, a small sample of the same gold is …

Nanoparticles, proteins, and nucleic acids: biotechnology meets materials science

CM Niemeyer - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Based on fundamental chemistry, biotechnology and materials science have developed
over the past three decades into today's powerful disciplines which allow the engineering of …

Highly luminescent monodisperse CdSe and CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals synthesized in a hexadecylamine− trioctylphosphine oxide− trioctylphospine mixture

DV Talapin, AL Rogach, A Kornowski, M Haase… - Nano …, 2001‏ - ACS Publications
Highly monodisperse CdSe nanocrystals were prepared in a three-component
hexadecylamine− trioctylphosphine oxide− trioctylphosphine (HDA− TOPO− TOP) mixture …

Narrow bandgap colloidal metal chalcogenide quantum dots: synthetic methods, heterostructures, assemblies, electronic and infrared optical properties

SV Kershaw, AS Susha, AL Rogach - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The chemistry, material processing and fundamental understanding of colloidal
semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) are advancing at an astounding rate, bringing …

Reversible Tunability of the Near-Infrared Valence Band Plasmon Resonance in Cu2–xSe Nanocrystals

D Dorfs, T Hartling, K Miszta, NC Bigall… - Journal of the …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that colloidal Cu2–x Se nanocrystals exhibit a well-defined infrared
absorption band due to the excitation of positive charge carrier oscillations (ie, a valence …

[كتاب][B] Introduction to nanophotonics

SV Gaponenko - 2010‏ - books.google.com
Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nanoscience and nanotechnology, and
where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-matter …