Luminescent disordered nanostructures: synthesis and characterization of CdSe nano-agglomerates

Abstract

A disorderly nanostructured CdSe nano-agglomerates (NAs) with tunable emission are synthesized in aqueous solution. Although the CdSe NAs have diameters of about 20 nm that are larger than the Bohr radius of the crystal bulk, they show size-dependent emission similar to the CdSe nanocrystals. The CdSe NAs represent a collective energy state based on Anderson localization.

Keywords

nano-agglomerates / CdSe / photoluminescence

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Acknowledgments

We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China for financial support of this research (Grant No. 21673167).

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