Precursor concentration and temperature controlled formation of polyvinyl alcohol-capped CdSe-quantum dots

• Chetan P. Shah,
• Madhabchandra Rath,
• Manmohan Kumar and
• Parma N. Bajaj

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2010, 1, 119–127, doi:10.3762/bjnano.1.14

• CdSe quantum dots of very small size, without the use of harsh experimental conditions, generally employed in the reported methods. Experimental Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) (molecular weight 125,000) and cadmium acetate (Cd(OAc)2) were obtained from S.D.Fine-Chem Ltd., Mumbai, India, and were used as