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Controlled Aqueous Synthesis of CdSe Quantum Dots using Double-Hydrophilic Block Copolymers as Stabilizers

  • Denis Runge and Helmut Cölfen EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: March 30, 2018
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie
From the journal Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie Volume 232 Issue 9-11

Abstract

We present a simple experimental procedure to obtain CdSe quantum dots from aqueous solution with a controllable size. Double-hydrophilic block copolymers consisting of a poly(ethylene glycol) block and a block of either poly(ethylene imine) or polylysine are used as stabilizers. UV/VIS absorption spectroscopy, analytical ultracentrifugation and transmission electron microscopy are used to examine the resulting quantum dots. The particle size can be simply controlled by adjusting the polymer concentration during synthesis for both block copolymers.

Keywords: CdSe; double hydrophilic block copolymer; quantum dot; size control

Dedicated to: Prof. Alexander Eychmüller on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Acknowledgements

We thank Philipp Keckeis for the synthesis of the PEG-b-pLys polymer. Cornelia Schneider and Rose Rosenberg are acknowledged for the AUC measurements and evaluations. We also thank Marina Krumova for carrying out the HR-TEM measurements.

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Supplementary Material:

The online version of this article offers supplementary material (https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2018-1146).

Received: 2018-02-05
Accepted: 2018-03-08
Published Online: 2018-03-30
Published in Print: 2018-08-28

©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/zpch-2018-1146
Keywords for this article
CdSe; double hydrophilic block copolymer; quantum dot; size control

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