This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

Quantum dots (QDs) have received great interest for diverse applications due to their distinct
advantages, such as narrow and symmetric emission with tunable colors, broad and strong …

Semiconducting quantum dots, whose particle sizes are in the nanometer range, have very
unusual properties. The quantum dots have band gaps that depend in a complicated fashion …

We present the rational synthesis of colloidal copper (I) sulfide nanocrystals and
demonstrate their application as an active light absorbing component in combination with …

Recent advances in the chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystal doping have led to
new materials showing fascinating physical properties of potential technological importance …

The tremendous progress in the synthesis of different inorganic nanoparticles with
pretailored size, shape, structural, compositional, and surface properties has significantly …

Efficient Cu-doped InP quantum dots (Cu: InP d-dots) emitters were successfully synthesized
by epitaxial growth of a ZnSe diffusion barrier for the dopants. The Cu dopant emission of …

In this paper, we report a new doping approach using a three-step synthesis to make high-
quality Mn-doped CdS/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals. This approach allows precise control of …

This review focuses on recent progress in the study of doped semiconductor nanocrystals
prepared by direct solution chemical routes. The emphasis is on materials that can be …

Ultra-small (3.1 nm) multifunctional CdS: Mn/ZnS core− shell semiconductor quantum dots
(Qdots), which possess fluorescent, radio-opacity, and paramagnetic properties, have been …