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ArticleNature communications2026

Automated synthesis of InSb quantum dots with improved batch-to-batch reproducibility via kinetically matched co-reduction.

Yangning Zhang, Hyeong Woo Ban, Pan Xia, Yang Bai, Sile Hu, Filip Dinic, Chang Liu, Yixi Li, Ehsan Nikbin, Shea Sanvordenker and 8 more

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Yangning Zhang *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5511-955X
Hyeong Woo Ban *Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
Pan Xia *Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Yang BaiAcceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1643-3770
Sile HuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Filip DinicDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Chang LiuDepartment of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Yixi LiAcceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ehsan NikbinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Shea SanvordenkerMcKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0009-7343-3644
Muhammad ImranDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7091-6514
Benjamin RehlDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-6717
Lewei ZengDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sjoerd HooglandDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-585X
Xiao QiThe Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4884-6454
Brian A KorgelMcKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-7526
Emory ChanThe Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. emchan@lbl.gov.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5655-0146
Edward H SargentDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. ted.sargent@utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0396-6495

Funding

Canada First Research Excellence Fund (Fonds d'excellence en recherche Apogée Canada) CFREF-2022-00042Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et en Génie du Canada) ALLRP 590340-23
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indium antimonide (InSb) colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) are attractive heavy-metal-free absorbers for infrared photodetection, yet their synthesis remains challenging because precursor reduction overlaps with nucleation and growth, hindering kinetic control and yielding broad size distributions. Here we employ an automated workflow to achieve precise control over InSb CQD synthesis, leading to improved batch-to-batch reproducibility and narrow size distributions without laborious post-synthetic size-selective precipitation. We find that InSb CQD formation proceeds through a kinetically matched precursor co-reduction pathway, which requires an In-rich environment to compensate for the faster reduction of Sb

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PMCPMC13396766

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