Abstract
An in situ method is introduced for the study of nucleation and growth of crystals using the size-dependent properties of a given system in the transition size regime from molecular species to bulk sized crystals. The real-time measurements for the first system studied, a CdSe one, were carried out by recording the absorption spectra during the reaction with a millisecond resolution.
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NucleationNanocrystalMillisecondIn situChemical physicsMaterials scienceAbsorption (acoustics)Absorption spectroscopyNanoparticleCrystallographyNanotechnologyChemical engineeringAnalytical Chemistry (journal)ChemistryOpticsPhysics
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- 4
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- 465-469
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Lianhua Qu,
William W. Yu,
Xiaogang Peng
(2004).
In Situ Observation of the Nucleation and Growth of CdSe Nanocrystals.
Nano Letters
, 4
(3)
, 465-469.
https://doi.org/10.1021/nl035211r
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- 10.1021/nl035211r