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Hydrosilylation kinetics of silicon nanocrystals
Wei Sun1, Chenxi Qian, Melanie L Mastronardi
1Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada. gozin@chem.utoronto.ca.
Abstract:
Hydrosilylation kinetics of hydride-capped silicon nanocrystals with 1-decene are reported for the first time. In a side-by-side comparison, it is found that microwave heating has no evident acceleration effect on the hydrosilylation rate relative to conventional thermal heating.

