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Inside Back Cover: Size‐Dependent Ligand Layer Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanocrystals Probed by Anisotropy Measurements (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42/2015)
Author(s) -
Hadar Ido,
Abir Tsafrir,
Halivni Shira,
Faust Adam,
Banin Uri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201508436
Subject(s) - nanocrystal , dispersity , colloid , materials science , ligand (biochemistry) , cover (algebra) , shell (structure) , anisotropy , chemical physics , nanotechnology , viscosity , layer (electronics) , semiconductor , surface (topology) , crystallography , optoelectronics , chemistry , optics , physics , geometry , composite material , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , receptor , mathematics , polymer chemistry , engineering
Size‐dependent ligand‐layer dynamics on the surface of colloidal nanocrystals were studied by probing the polarized emission of surface‐bound dyes. These properties impact the synthesis, dispersity, and optoelectronic features of colloidal nanocrystals. In their Communication on page 12463 ff., U. Banin et al. show that the ligand‐shell effective viscosity can be tuned by changing the surface geometry. This will allow rational design of the surface for tuning the nanocrystal functionality.