Issue 14, 2005
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Chemical Communications

Micro-emulsion synthesis of monodisperse surface stabilized silicon nanocrystals

Richard D. Tilley,*a   Jamie H. Warner,a   Kazushige Yamamoto,b   Isao Matsuib  and  Hiroyuki Fujimoric  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, MacDiarmid Institute of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
E-mail: Richard.tilley@vuw.ac.nz
Fax: + 64 4 463 5237
Tel: + 64 4 463 5016

b Toshiba Corporate Research and Development Center, 1, Komukai Toshiba-Cho, Saiwai Ku, Kawasaki, Japan

c Research & Development Center, Toshiba Ceramics Co. Ltd., 30, Soya, Hadano, Kanagawa prefecture 257-8566, Japan

Abstract

Silicon nanocrystals with a uniform size distribution were synthesized in inverse micelles using powerful hydride reducing agents. The silicon nanocrystals surfaces were then stabilized with 1-heptene to produce particles with strong blue photoluminescence.

Graphical abstract: Micro-emulsion synthesis of monodisperse surface stabilized silicon nanocrystals

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B416069J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Oct 2004
Accepted
06 Jan 2005
First published
15 Mar 2005

Chem. Commun., 2005, 1833-1835

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Micro-emulsion synthesis of monodisperse surface stabilized silicon nanocrystals

R. D. Tilley, J. H. Warner, K. Yamamoto, I. Matsui and H. Fujimori, Chem. Commun., 2005, 1833 DOI: 10.1039/B416069J

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