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

Quantum dots (QDs) have received great interest for diverse applications due to their distinct
advantages, such as narrow and symmetric emission with tunable colors, broad and strong …

The recent surge in the utilization of semiconductor nanostructures for solar energy
conversion has led to the development of high-efficiency solar cells. Some of these recent …

To make Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells (QDSC) competitive, it is necessary to achieve
power conversion efficiencies comparable to other emerging solar cell technologies. By …

Mn2+ ions doped in high-energy absorbing semiconductor host nanocrystals take away the
exciton energy and result in spin-polarized d–d emission. For the last three decades this has …

The demand for clean energy will require the design of nanostructure-based light-harvesting
assemblies for the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy (solar fuels) and …

Introducing a few atoms of impurities or dopants in semiconductor nanocrystals can
drastically alter the existing properties or even introduce new properties. For example, mid …

Do** of bulk semiconductors has revealed widespread success in optoelectronic
applications. In the past few decades, substantial effort has been engaged for do** at the …

Do** Mn2+ in semiconductor nanocrystals is widely known for its long-lifetime Mn d–d
orange emission. While this had been extensively studied for chalcogenide nanostructures …

Divalent manganese cation (Mn2+) doped perovskite materials are of great interest for their
unique optical, magnetic, and electric properties. Herein, we report an excitation-dependent …