Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Defect engineered bioactive transition metals dichalcogenides quantum dots

  • Xianguang Ding,
  • Fei Peng,
  • Jun Zhou,
  • Wenbin Gong,
  • Garaj Slaven,
  • Kian Ping Loh,
  • Chwee Teck Lim,
  • David Tai Leong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07835-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) quantum dots (QDs) have promising electronic properties which might be further tailorable by defect engineering. Here the authors describe a room temperature aqueous based synthesis of TMD QDs with controlled defect concentration, and demonstrate the correlation between defect concentration and biomedical activity.