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Silver Tip Formation on Colloidal CdSe Nanorods by a Facile Phase Transfer Protocol

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Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

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Abstract

A facile phase transfer procedure is described for the formation of uniform silver metal tips on II–VI semiconductor nanorods. Judicious choice of a functional ligand dimethyl phenol (DMP) which binds to the semiconductor rod in the organic phase enables the transfer of metal ions from the aqueous phase and their reduction onto the nanorod. The nanorod hybrids can be assembled into perpendicularly aligned arrays by simple solvent evaporation.

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TB acknowledges University of Calcutta for financial support (UGC/1039/Nano Travel Grant) to participate in the conference. The financial supports by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI, Contract No. 06/IN.1/I85 at UL), Institutional funding from INSPIRE are gratefully acknowledged.

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    Tanushree Bala

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Bala, T., Ryan, K.M. (2013). Silver Tip Formation on Colloidal CdSe Nanorods by a Facile Phase Transfer Protocol. In: Giri, P.K., Goswami, D.K., Perumal, A. (eds) Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34216-5_2

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