Kei Murakoshi, Hiroji Hosokawa, Naoko Tanaka, Miwa Saito, Yuji Wada, Shozo Yanagida, Kei Murakoshi, Takao Sakata and Hirotaro Mori
Pentafluorothiophenol, thiophenol, 1-decanethiol, 1-hexanethiol, benzoic acid and cyanoacetic acid, which are confirmed to bind to the surface of ZnS nanocrystallites, induce phase transition of ZnS nanocrystallites from the hexagonal to the cubic phase, with retention of the crystalline size of 3 nm at ambient temperature and pressure.