“…Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots, nanorods, nanoplatelets, nanotetrapods, etc.) form an appealing class of materials with highly tunable electronic and optical properties and a wide range of potential applications including light-emitting diodes, − lasers, , solar concentrators and solar cells, − and biological imaging. − In particular, the electronic structure of colloidal nanocrystals can be precisely modified by changing their size and shape during the synthesis procedure without any modification of their chemical composition. − Besides widely studied spherical core–shell quantum dots, such nanocrystals as nanorods and nanowires, nanoplatelets, , nanoscrolls, , and nanocrystals with more complicated shape (tetrapods and octapods) − were fabricated. Tetrapod-shaped type II heterostructured nanocrystals from different materials are among the most intriguing low dimensional semiconductor nanostructures with anisotropic shape. , The tetrapod-shaped nanocrystals have the potential to demonstrate a variety of interesting mechanical, electrical, and optical properties.…”