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Chemical Communications

Modulation of the solubility of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals through facile surface functionalization†

Tommaso Avellini,‡a   Christophe Lincheneau,a   Marcello La Rosa,a   Antonio Pertegás,b   Henk J. Bolink,b   Iain A. Wright,c   Edwin C. Constable,c   Serena Silvia  and  Alberto Credi*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Photochemical Nanosciences Laboratory, Dipartimento di Chimica "G. Ciamician", Università di Bologna, via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy
E-mail: alberto.credi@unibo.it
Fax: +39 051 2099456

b Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Universidad de Valencia, C/Catadratico J. Beltran n. 2, Paterna, Valencia 46980, Spain

c Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Spitalstrasse 51, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

The solubility of luminescent quantum dots in solvents from hexane to water can be finely tuned by the choice of the countercations associated with carboxylate residues present on the nanocrystal surface. The resulting nanocrystals exhibit long term colloidal and chemical stability and maintain their photophysical properties.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC03805C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 May 2014
Accepted
29 Jul 2014
First published
30 Jul 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 11020-11022

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Modulation of the solubility of luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals through facile surface functionalization

T. Avellini, C. Lincheneau, M. La Rosa, A. Pertegás, H. J. Bolink, I. A. Wright, E. C. Constable, S. Silvi and A. Credi, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 11020 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC03805C

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