Self-assembly of CdTe nanocrystals at the water/oil interface by amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers

  • Yunfeng Shi
  • , Chunlai Tu
  • , Qi Zhu
  • , Huifeng Qian
  • , Jicun Ren
  • , Cuihua Liu
  • , Xinyuan Zhu
  • , Deyue Yan
  • , Eric Siu-Wai Kong
  • , Peng He

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Abstract

A general strategy for realizing the self-assembly of aqueous CdTe nanocrystals (NCs) at the water/oil interface by means of an amphiphilic core-shell hyperbranched polymer has been proposed. Aqueous CdTe NCs were firstly transferred into the chloroform phase in the presence of palmityl chloride functionalized hyperbranched poly(amidoamine) (HPAMAM-PC), and then self-assembled at the water/chloroform interface by decreasing the pH value of the aqueous phase or introducing α-CDs to the aqueous phase. The resulting CdTe/HPAMAM-PC self-assembly film was characterized by fluorescence microscopy, UV-vis, PL, TEM, EDS, FT-IR, DSC and TGA. © IOP Publishing Ltd.
Original languageEnglish
Article number445609
JournalNanotechnology
Volume19
Issue number44
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 5 2008

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