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ArticleNature communications2018

Thermally-induced reversible structural isomerization in colloidal semiconductor CdS magic-size clusters.

Baowei Zhang, Tingting Zhu, Mingyang Ou, Nelson Rowell, Hongsong Fan, Jiantao Han, Lei Tan, Martin T Dove, Yang Ren, Xiaobing Zuo and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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13 authors.

Baowei ZhangInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, PR China.
Tingting ZhuInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, PR China.
Mingyang OuSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, PR China.
Nelson RowellNational Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0R6, Canada.
Hongsong FanEngineering Research Center in Biomaterials, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, PR China.
Jiantao HanSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, 430074, Wuhan, PR China.
Lei TanSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK.
Martin T DoveSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK.
Yang RenX-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
Xiaobing ZuoX-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA.
Shuo HanInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, PR China. shuohan@scu.edu.cn.
Jianrong ZengShanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 201204, Shanghai, PR China. zengjianrong@sinap.ac.cn.
Kui YuInstitute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, 610065, Chengdu, PR China. kuiyu@scu.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural isomerism of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals has been largely unexplored. Here, we report one pair of structural isomers identified for colloidal nanocrystals which exhibit thermally-induced reversible transformations behaving like molecular isomerization. The two isomers are CdS magic-size clusters with sharp absorption peaks at 311 and 322 nm. They have identical cluster masses, but slightly different structures. Furthermore, their interconversions follow first-order unimolecular reaction kinetics. We anticipate that such isomeric kinetics are applicable to a variety of small-size functional nanomaterials, and that the methodology developed for our kinetic study will be helpful to investigate and exploit solid-solid transformations in other semiconductor nanocrystals. The findings on structural isomerism should stimulate attention toward advanced design and synthesis of functional nanomaterials enabled by structural transformations.

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