title: Chemical etching with tetrafluoroborate: a facile method for resizing of CdTe nanocrystals under mild conditions.
abstract: This communication describes a facile and mild chemical etching method for resizing of CdTe nanocrystals, which provides a possible approach for tailoring the size-dependent properties of the nanocrystals.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Engineering Center for Biomedicine, Key Laboratory for Bio-Nanotechnology and Molecular Engineering of Hunan Province, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Jianbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiaohai
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Kemin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Dong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Pengfei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D001881:Borates / Q000737:chemistry*; D002104:Cadmium / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry*; D049329:Nanostructures; D045663:Quantum Dots; D013691:Tellurium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D001881:Borates; D002104:Cadmium; D013691:Tellurium