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Fabrication of Spherical and Worm-shaped Micellar Nanocrystals by Combining Electrospray, Self-assembly, and Solvent-based Structure Control
Published on: February 11, 2018
Micro-emulsion synthesis of monodisperse surface stabilized silicon nanocrystals
Richard D Tilley1, Jamie H Warner, Kazushige Yamamoto
1School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand. Richard.tilley@vuw.ac.nz
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 30, 2005
Abstract:
Silicon nanocrystals with a uniform size distribution were synthesized in inverse micelles using powerful hydride reducing agents. The silicon nanocrystals surfaces were then stabilized with 1-heptene to produce particles with strong blue photoluminescence.
