Reborn water-soluble CdTe quantum dots.
Recovery of fully aggregated water-soluble CdTe quantum dots was achieved by simple treatment with a strong base. A deprotonation-triggered disaggregation is postulated to be the main mechanism involved in the quantum dots "reborn" process.
REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal.
Anita
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Lourenço
REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal. Electronic address: teresa.casimiro@fct.unl.pt.
Teresa
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Casimiro
REQUIMTE, Chemistry Department, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal. Electronic address: vbb@fct.unl.pt.
Vasco D B
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Bonifácio
Bioimaging; Fluorescence; Water-soluble quantum dots