Green synthesis of anisotropic CdSe nanocrystals via a non-phosphine based method

Facile nitrogen-free one-potaqueous synthesis of highly soluble and luminescent CdSe quantum dots

“…This has led to attracting attention to its usage as a promising candidate in fundamental studies and applications such as solar cells, hydrogen production, biological imaging, wastewater treatment, LED and laser applications [5][6][7][8][9] . Although high-quality CdSe QDs which possess monodisperse sizes, shapes, high intensity and narrow PL peaks were reproducibly and controllably prepared by using organometallic route [10] or its alternative approach [11] , the reports regarding the synthesis of CdSe QDs using the above schemes are exhibiting major problems and demerits such as utilization of high temperature needed to the crystal growth or using hazardous capping agents such as TOPO\TBP [17,18] and environmental unfriendly solvents such as Oleic acid, Toluene, n-Hexane as solvents excluding its employing in biological applications [14][15][16] .…”