One method for making these materials mixes a certain compound with a chalcogenide reagent in a very  hot solution trioctylphosphine oxide.
One method for making these materials mixes a certain compound with a chalcogenide reagent in a very  hot solution trioctylphosphine oxide. That reaction for making these is the Murray-Bawendi method. Maxime  Dahan pioneered the use of these materials in biomolecular tracking. The density of states in these substances  are delta function like peaks. Probably the most common compound used to make these substances is  cadmium selenide. Ancient roman lead sulfide hair dyes worked in part because these materials would form around  sulfur containing amino acids in the keratin. One problem encountered when using these substances is their habit of  blinking. These objects composed of a core and a shell that confines a small number of electrons, much like atoms.  The size quantization effect in these materials allows for the tuning of their unusual optical properties. For 10 points,  name these zero dimensional structures that are sometimes called artificial atoms.
One method for making these materials mixes a certain compound with a chalcogenide reagent in a very  hot solution trioctylphosphine oxide.
quantum dots [or nanocrystals]