Volume 22, Issue 5 pp. 441-444
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Biomimetic synthesis of CdSe quantum dots through emulsion liquid membrane system of gas-liquid transport

Lu Liu

Lu Liu

Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

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Qing-Sheng Wu

Qing-Sheng Wu

Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

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Ya-Ping Ding

Ya-Ping Ding

Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200436, China

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Hua-Jie Liu

Hua-Jie Liu

Department of Chemistry, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China

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Bao-Quan Zhang

Bao-Quan Zhang

Center of Technology, Tangshan Steel and Iron Co. Ltd, Tangshan, Hebei 063016, China

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First published: 26 August 2010
Citations: 6

Abstract

The cadmium selenide quantum dots (QD) have been synthesized by template-control in an emulsion liquid membrane system. The system consisted of kerosene as solvent, L152 (dialkylene succinimide) as surfactant, N7301 (trialiphatic amine, Ra, R=C8-C10) as carrier, 0.1 mol/L CdCl2 solution as internal-aqueous phase and H2Se gas as external phase. Additive organic template agent in internal-aqueous phase was necessary to fom CdSe QD. The influence of the nature of template and its concentration on sizes of the formed CdSe QD has also been studied. Transmission electron microscopy showed that the sizes of the products could be controlled down to 3-4 nm. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that the crystals had cubic structure. The formation process and the optical properties of CdSe QD have also been presented.

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