title: Preparation of colloidal solution of silica encapsulating cyanobiphenyl unit-capped ZnO QD emitting in the blue region.
abstract: The encapsulation of ZnO nanoparticles (5 nm) coated by cyanobiphenyl units by the sol-gel technique leads to spherical ZnO@SiO2 nanoparticles displaying blue emission under UV excitation.
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 UR1-CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. maria.amela-cortes@univ-rennes1.fr Chrystelle.Neaime@insa-rennes.fr.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Neaime
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 UR1-CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. maria.amela-cortes@univ-rennes1.fr Chrystelle.Neaime@insa-rennes.fr.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Amela-Cortes
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 UR1-CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. maria.amela-cortes@univ-rennes1.fr Chrystelle.Neaime@insa-rennes.fr and CNRS, UMI 3629, Laboratory for Innovative Key Materials and Structures-LINK, National Institute of Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, 305-0044, Tsukuba, Japan.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grasset
authors.affiliation: Lebanese University-Faculty of Science II, Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Materials (LCPM PR2N), 90656 Fanar, Beirut, Lebanon.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zakhour
authors.affiliation: Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, UMR 6226 UR1-CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France. maria.amela-cortes@univ-rennes1.fr Chrystelle.Neaime@insa-rennes.fr.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Molard