Addition of Fluorescence Lifetime Spectroscopy to the Tool Kit Used to Study the Formation and Degradation of Luminescent Quantum Dots in Solution

• Published in: Langmuir Vol. 33; no. 12; pp. 3018 - 3027
• Main Authors: Lyons, Taeyjuana Y, Williams, Denise N, Rosenzweig, Zeev
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 28.03.2017

The increasing commercialization of consumer electronic products that make use of II–VI semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) has raised significant concerns about their impact on natural systems and human health once they are released into the environment at the end of the product’s lifetime. In this pa...