The field of colloidal synthesis of semiconductors emerged 40 years ago and has reached a
certain level of maturity thanks to the use of nanocrystals as phosphors in commercial …

BACKGROUND The Information Age was founded on the semiconductor revolution, marked
by the growth of high-purity semiconductor single crystals. The resultant design and …

The field of nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) is already more than 30 years old, and yet
continuing interest in these structures is driven by both the fascinating physics emerging …

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 …

Lanthanide-doped upconversion (UC) phosphors absorb low-energy infrared light and
convert it into higher-energy visible light. Despite over 10 years of development, it has not …

We demonstrate that metal carboxylate complexes (L–M (O2CR) 2, R= oleyl, tetradecyl, M=
Cd, Pb) are readily displaced from carboxylate-terminated ME nanocrystals (ME= CdSe …

Multicarrier dynamics play an essential role in quantum dot photophysics and
photochemistry, and they are primarily governed by nonradiative Auger processes. Auger …

The subject of this review is the colloidal quantum dot (QD) and specifically the interaction of
the QD with proximate molecules. It covers various functions of these molecules, including (i) …

Nanocrystals (NCs) discussed in this Review are tiny crystals of metals, semiconductors,
and magnetic material consisting of hundreds to a few thousand atoms each. Their size …

The ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential
applications in solar energy, biological imaging, and data storage. In this Letter, CdSe and …