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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Amorphous CdSe nanoparticles were prepared by a base-catalyzed room-temperature reaction between cadmium nitrate and selenourea, with dodecanethiol as a capping ligand. The nanoparticle size could be controlled from 1.9 to 3.6 nm by increasing the water concentration in the reaction. When the nanoparticles were heated in a pyridine suspension, excitonic peaks appeared in the initially featureless optical absorption spectra. By changing the suspension solvent and the capping ligand and its concentration, it was shown that the dynamic surface exchange between the ligand and pyridine controls the crystallization process. This phenomenon was interpreted as a surface rigidity effect imposed by the ligand, whose importance was separately evidenced on the dried nanoparticles by the evolution of X-ray diffraction patterns and Raman spectra. In particular, both techniques showed that a threshold …
Publisher: 
American Chemical Society
Publication date: 
7 Oct 2008
Authors: 

Mauro Epifani, Eva Pellicer, Jordi Arbiol, Nicolas Sergent, Thierry Pagnier, Joan R Morante

Biblio References: 
Volume: 24 Issue: 19 Pages: 11182-11188
Origin: 
Langmuir