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 …

Lasers and optical amplifiers based on solution-processable materials have been long-
desired devices for their compatibility with virtually any substrate, scalability, and ease of …

Heavy-metal (Cd, Hg, and Pb)-containing semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) have been
explored widely due to their unique optical and electrical properties. However, the toxicity …

Chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs) are established as promising materials for white-light-
emitting applications because of their wide surface defect emission. However, the limited …

The last decade has witnessed extensive breakthroughs and significant progress in
atomically flat two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor nanoplatelets (NPLs) in terms of …

Colloidal quantum wells (CQWs) are regarded as a highly promising class of optoelectronic
materials, thanks to their unique excitonic characteristics of high extinction coefficients and …

Semi-conducting nanoplatelets are two-dimensional nanoparticles whose thickness is in the
nanometer range and controlled at the atomic level. They have come up as a new category …

Compared with zero‐dimensional quantum dots and one‐dimensional nanorods, two‐
dimensional nanoplatelets exhibit many unique optical properties. Due to strong quantum …

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) attract significant interest in recent years due to
their narrow and tunable emission wavelength in the visible range, as well as high …

The typical synthesis protocol for blue-emitting CdSe nanoplatelets (NPLs) yields particles
with extended lateral dimensions and large surface areas, resulting in NPLs with poor …