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Monolayer Silane-Coated, Water-Soluble Quantum Dots.

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (2015-10-20)
Xi Zhang, Armen Shamirian, Ali M Jawaid, Christina M Tyrakowski, Leah E Page, Adita Das, Ou Chen, Adela Isovic, Asra Hassan, Preston T Snee
PMID26476710
ABSTRACT

A one-step method to produce ≈12 nm hydrodynamic diameter water-soluble CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs), as well as CdS/ZnS, ZnSe/ZnMnS/ZnS, AgInS2 /ZnS, and CuInS2 /ZnS QDs, by ligand exchange with a near-monolayer of organosilane caps is reported. The method cross-links the surface-bound silane ligands such that the samples are stable on the order of months under ambient conditions. Furthermore, the samples may retain a high quantum yield (60%) over this time. Several methods to functionalize aqueous QD dispersions with proteins and fluorescent dyes have been developed with reaction yields as high as 97%.

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