“…In addition, ethyl acetate has polarity and viscosity close to those of MMA and produces a close emission line width and band edge absorption of the PNCs (Fig.S1c and d, ESI †).We further investigated the temporal evolution of the emission wavelength and FWHM of the PNCs prepared in ODE, toluene, and MMA at 100 1C to gain more insights into the solvent effect on the growth kinetics of the PNCs. PL characteristics have been widely used for in situ monitoring and analyzing the growth of PNCs because of their size dependent bandgap/PL peak [43][44][45]. Fig.2(a) and (b) show the temporal evolution of the PL peak and FWHM of the PNCs synthesized in ODE, toluene, and MMA, and the corresponding spectra are provided in Fig.…”