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ReviewNanoscale advances2020

Multinary copper-based chalcogenide nanocrystal systems from the perspective of device applications.

Soubantika Palchoudhury, Karthik Ramasamy, Arunava Gupta

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Review in Nanoscale advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Mechanochemically Synthesized Nanocrystalline CuNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Soubantika PalchoudhuryCivil and Chemical Engineering Department, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga TN USA soubantika-palchoudhury@utc.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0696-0454
Karthik RamasamyUbiQD Inc Los Alamos NM USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7358-169X
Arunava GuptaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Alabama AL USA agupta@ua.edu.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-7209
UbiQD (United States) · USUniversity of Alabama · USUniversity of Tennessee at Chattanooga · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multinary chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals are a unique class of materials as they offer flexibility in composition, structure, and morphology for controlled band gap and optical properties. They offer a vast selection of materials for energy conversion, storage, and harvesting applications. Among the multinary chalcogenides, Cu-based compounds are the most attractive in terms of sustainability as many of them consist of earth-abundant elements. There has been immense progress in the field of Cu-based chalcogenides for device applications in the recent years. This paper reviews the state of the art synthetic strategies and application of multinary Cu-chalcogenide nanocrystals in photovoltaics, photocatalysis, light emitting diodes, supercapacitors, and luminescent solar concentrators. This includes the synthesis of ternary, quaternary, and quinary Cu-chalcogenide nanocrystals. The review also highlights some emerging experimental and computational characterization approaches for multinary Cu-chalcogenide semiconductor nanocrystals. It discusses the use of different multinary Cu-chalcogenide compounds, achievements in device performance, and the recent progress made with multinary Cu-chalcogenide nanocrystals in various energy conversion and energy storage devices. The review concludes with an outlook on some emerging and future device applications for multinary Cu-chalcogenides, such as scalable luminescent solar concentrators and wearable biomedical electronics.

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