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Tapas K Purkait1, Anindya K Swarnakar, Glenda B De Los Reyes
1Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2G2. jveinot@ualberta.ca erivard@ualberta.ca.
Nanoscale
|January 8, 2015
Abstract:
One-pot syntheses of surface functionalized germanium nanocrystals (GeNCs) based upon traditional hot injection and microwave-assisted heating of a Ge(II) dihydride single source precursor have been developed. The reported procedures offer in situ hydrogermylation-based covalent attachment of alkene/alkyne derived surface moieties that give access to hydrophobic or hydrophilic GeNCs.
