The surface science of nanocrystals

MA Boles, D Ling, T Hyeon, DV Talapin - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
All nanomaterials share a common feature of large surface-to-volume ratio, making their
surfaces the dominant player in many physical and chemical processes. Surface ligands …

Prospects of nanoscience with nanocrystals

MV Kovalenko, L Manna, A Cabot, Z Hens… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Mesocrystals: structural and morphogenetic aspects

EV Sturm, H Cölfen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Mesocrystals are a fascinating class of crystalline nanostructured materials since they
combine the properties of nanoparticles with order on the microscopic or even macroscopic …

Facet control for trap‐state suppression in colloidal quantum dot solids

Y **a, W Chen, P Zhang, S Liu, K Wang… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Trap states in colloidal quantum dot (QD) solids significantly affect the performance of QD
solar cells, because they limit the open‐circuit voltage and short circuit current. The {100} …

Stabilization of PbS colloidal-quantum-dot gas sensors using atomic-ligand engineering

Z Hu, L Zhou, L Li, J Liu, HY Li, B Song, J Zhang… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are promising materials candidates for next-generation
semiconductor gas sensors, due to their high surface activity and solution-processability …

Binary assembly of PbS and Au nanocrystals: Patchy PbS surface ligand coverage stabilizes the CuAu superlattice

MA Boles, DV Talapin - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly of two sizes of nearly spherical colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) capped with
hydrocarbon surface ligands has been shown to produce more than 20 distinct phases of …

Stacking-dependent electrical transport in a colloidal CdSe nanoplatelet thin-film transistor

S Jana, R Martins, E Fortunato - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Here, we report an exceptional feature of the one-dimensional threadlike assemblies of a
four-monolayer colloidal CdSe nanoplatelet (NPL)-based thin-film transistor. A series of …

Revealing grain boundaries and defect formation in nanocrystal superlattices by nanodiffraction

N Mukharamova, D Lapkin, IA Zaluzhnyy, A André… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray nanodiffraction is applied to study the formation and correlation of domain boundaries
in mesocrystalline superlattices of PbS nanocrystals with face‐centered cubic structure …

Surface chemistry and buried interfaces in all-inorganic nanocrystalline solids

E Scalise, V Srivastava, E Janke, D Talapin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Semiconducting nanomaterials synthesized using wet chemical techniques play an
important role in emerging optoelectronic and photonic technologies. Controlling the surface …

Site-specific ligand interactions favor the tetragonal distortion of PbS nanocrystal superlattices

J Novák, R Banerjee, A Kornowski… - … applied materials & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We analyze the structure and morphology of mesocrystalline, body-centered tetragonal (bct)
superlattices of PbS nanocrystals functionalized with oleic acid. On the basis of combined …