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Published on: October 9, 2012
Single-sized colloidal CdTe nanocrystals with strong bandgap photoluminescence
Ruibing Wang1, Jianying Ouyang, Steve Nikolaus
1Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6.
Abstract:
One brand-new colloidal ensemble of single-sized CdTe nanocrystals, exhibiting a sharp first excitonic absorption peak at 427 nm and bright bandgap photoluminescence at 427 nm with narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM) of only ca. 10 nm, was synthesized in 1-octadecene (ODE) via a non-injection one-pot approach which features high synthetic reproducibility with potential for industrial scale production.

