title: Study on Growth Kinetics of CdSe Nanocrystals with a New Model.
abstract: A model which involves both bulk diffusion process and surface reaction process has been developed for describing the growth behaviour of nanoparticles. When the model is employed, hypothesising that either of the processes alone dominates the overall growth process is unnecessary. Conversely, the relative magnitude of contributions from both processes could be obtained from the model. Using this model in our system, the growth process of CdSe QDs demonstrated two different growth stages. During the first stage, the growth of CdSe QDs was dominated by bulk diffusion, whereas, neither the bulk diffusion process nor the surface reaction process could be neglected during the later stage. At last, we successfully modelled the Ostwald ripening of CdSe QDs with LSW theories.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, 300072, Tianjin, Peoples' Republic of China. wangjkch@tju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Huaipeng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: Johndavid
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Andrew Y
authors.initials: AY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Low
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Jingkang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang