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Synthesis of Cd-free InP/ZnS Quantum Dots Suitable for Biomedical Applications
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Emission-tunable microwave synthesis of highly luminescent water soluble CdSe/ZnS quantum dots
Marc D Roy1, Andrew A Herzing, Silvia H De Paoli Lacerda
1Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 29, 2008
Abstract:
Water soluble CdSe/ZnS nanoparticles with emission maxima from 511 nm to 596 nm and quantum efficiencies ranging from 11% to 28% are synthesized in a facile two-step method in ambient atmospheric conditions using a commercially available microwave reactor.
