«Biomanufacturing of CdS quantum dots: A bacterial method for the low - cost, environmentally - friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum
dot nanocrystals.»
Not exact matches
These so - called
nanocrystal quantum
dots, however, have a coating of organic molecules that tends to block out the electrons needed to stimulate the
dots.
Using an engineered strain of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia to control particle size, Lehigh researchers biosynthesized quantum
dots using bacteria and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low - cost, scalable and green synthesis of CdS
nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range.
A team of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial method for the low - cost, environmentally friendly synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum
dot (QD)
nanocrystals at room temperature.
Semiconductor
nanocrystals, or quantum
dots, are tiny, nanometer - sized particles with the ability to absorb light and re-emit it with well - defined colors.
Small organic fluorescent dyes,
nanocrystals («quantum
dots»), autofluorescent proteins, small genetic encoded tags that can be complexed with fluorochromes, and combinations of these probes are highlighted.
Other forms of quantum
dots could be used as a sensor in place of the molecule, such as those that can be realized with semiconductor materials: one example would be quantum
dots made of
nanocrystals like those already being used in fundamental research.
In the new report published in Nature Materials, the Los Alamos team demonstrates that using their «designer» quantum
dots, they can achieve light amplification in a
nanocrystal solid with direct - current electrical pumping.
The nanowire path beyond the superconductor is configured into a junction and the team ensures that the electrons take separate directions when they meet this fork by placing a «gate» built from a
nanocrystal, called a quantum
dot, at the head of each path.
In a breakthrough development, Los Alamos scientists have shown that they can successfully amplify light using electrically excited films of the chemically synthesized semiconductor
nanocrystals known as quantum
dots.
Researchers at CNRS, CEA and the Université Grenoble Alpes propose an efficient alternative using semi-conductor
nanocrystals (also called quantum
dots) based on cheaper and less toxic elements, such as copper, indium and sulfur.
Quantum
dots, aka
nanocrystals, is the TV buzzword for 2015, but Sony has been using the color - expanding technology to great effect for years.