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"A general strategy for nanocrystal
synthesis," by Xun Wang, Jing
Zhuang, Qing Peng, and Yadong Li, Nature, 437(7055): 121-4, 1 September
2005.
[Authors' affiliations: Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China; National Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Beijing,
China]
Abstract:
"New strategies for materials fabrication are of fundamental importance
in the advancement of science and technology. Organometallic and other organic
solution phase synthetic routes have enabled the synthesis of functional
inorganic quantum dots or nanocrystals. These nanomaterials form the building
blocks for new bottom-up approaches to materials assembly for a range of uses;
such materials also receive attention because of their intrinsic
size-dependent properties and resulting applications. Here we report a unified
approach to the synthesis of a large variety of nanocrystals with different
chemistries and properties and with low dispersity; these include noble metal,
magnetic/dielectric, semiconducting, rare-earth fluorescent, biomedical,
organic optoelectronic semiconducting and conducting polymer nanoparticles.
This strategy is based on a general phase transfer and separation mechanism
occurring at the interfaces of the liquid, solid and solution phases present
during the synthesis. We believe our methodology provides a simple and
convenient route to a variety of building blocks for assembling materials with
novel structure and function in nanotechnology."
This 2005 report from Nature was cited
17 times in current journal articles indexed by Thomson
Scientific during July-August 2006. Only one other chemistry paper published
in the last two years (not counting reviews) received more citations during
that two-month period. Prior to the most recent bimonthly count, citations to
the paper have accrued as follows:
May-June 2006: 9 citations
March-April 2006: 6
January-February 2006: 4
Total citations to date: 36
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