The design of nanoparticles is critical for their efficient use in many applications ranging from
biomedicine to sensing and energy. While shape and size are responsible for the properties …

Zinc oxide is an extensively studied semiconductor with a wide band gap in the near-UV. Its
many interesting properties have found use in optics, electronics, catalysis, sensing, as well …

Lead halide perovskite nanocrystals (LHP NCs) have emerged as next-generation
semiconductor materials with outstanding optical and optoelectronic properties. Because of …

External manipulation of emission colour is of significance for scientific research and
applications, however, the general stimulus-responsive colour modulation method requires …

Lead halide perovskite materials have attracted significant attention in the context of
photovoltaics and other optoelectronic applications, and recently, research efforts have been …

All nanomaterials share a common feature of large surface-to-volume ratio, making their
surfaces the dominant player in many physical and chemical processes. Surface ligands …

We demonstrate that metal carboxylate complexes (L–M (O2CR) 2, R= oleyl, tetradecyl, M=
Cd, Pb) are readily displaced from carboxylate-terminated ME nanocrystals (ME= CdSe …

We employed oleylphosphonic acid (OLPA) for the synthesis of CsPbBr3 nanocrystals
(NCs). Compared to phosphonic acids with linear alkyl chains, OLPA features a higher …

Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs, ie, crystalline nanoparticles) have become an important class
of materials with great potential for applications ranging from medicine to electronic and …

Photon-upconverting nanoparticles (UCNPs) can be excited by near-infrared light and emit
visible light (anti-Stokes emission) which prevents autofluorescence and light scattering of …