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SUBMITTER: Manhat BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3490632 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Manhat Beth A BA Brown Anna L AL Black Labe A LA Ross J B Alexander JB Fichter Katye K Vu Tania T Richman Erik E Goforth Andrea M AM
Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society 20110414 9
We have developed a versatile, one-step melt synthesis of water-soluble, highly emissive silicon nanoparticles using bi-functional, low-melting solids (such as glutaric acid) as reaction media. Characterization through transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy shows that the one-step melt synthesis produces nanoscale Si cores surrounded by a silicon oxide shell. Analysis of the nanoparticle surface using FT-IR, ...[more]