Water-soluble, luminescent ZnTe quantum dots: supersaturation-controlled synthesis and self-assembly into nanoballs, nanonecklaces and nanowiresElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: Preparation of NaHTe, DLS, EDX and zeta potential measurements. See DOI: 10.1039/c5dt04142b

• Main Authors: Patra, Sovan Kumar, Bhushan, Bhavya, Priyam, Amiya
• Format: Journal Article
• Published: 18.02.2016

A supersaturation-controlled aqueous synthesis route has been developed for ZnTe quantum dots (QDs) with high monodispersity, size tunability, stability, band-edge luminescence (full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) 10-12 nm) and negligibly small Stokes' shift (2-4 nm). The degree of supersaturatio...