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Blue emission from cysteine ester passivated cadmium sulfide nanoclusters
1Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560 012, India. sarma@sscu.iisc.ernet.in
Abstract:
A one-pot synthesis is reported of water-soluble cadmium sulfide nanoclusters capped with cysteine ester, with an average size of 2.0 nm and fluorescing in the blue region, establishing the possibility of using these as fluorescent biological probes.

