Cyclodextrin modified quantum dots with tunable liquid-like behaviour

Juan Zhou; Jin Huang; Demei Tian; Haibing Li

doi:10.1039/c2cc17562b

Cyclodextrin modified quantum dots with tunable liquid-like behaviour

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Apr 14;48(30):3596-8. doi: 10.1039/c2cc17562b. Epub 2012 Jan 5.

Authors

Juan Zhou¹, Jin Huang, Demei Tian, Haibing Li

Affiliation

¹ Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology (CCNU), Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, PR China.

PMID: 22222606
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc17562b

Abstract

Supermolecular quantum dots (QDs) nanofluids have been firstly proposed and synthesized by virtue of the strong inclusion interactions between α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains, resulting in tunable liquid-like behaviour, and controllable assembly of single QDs.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Calorimetry, Differential Scanning
Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
Polyethylene Glycols / chemistry*
Quantum Dots*
Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared
Thermogravimetry
alpha-Cyclodextrins / chemistry*

Substances

alpha-Cyclodextrins
Polyethylene Glycols
alpha-cyclodextrin