Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Thermally-induced reversible structural isomerization in colloidal semiconductor CdS magic-size clusters

  • Baowei Zhang,
  • Tingting Zhu,
  • Mingyang Ou,
  • Nelson Rowell,
  • Hongsong Fan,
  • Jiantao Han,
  • Lei Tan,
  • Martin T. Dove,
  • Yang Ren,
  • Xiaobing Zuo,
  • Shuo Han,
  • Jianrong Zeng,
  • Kui Yu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04842-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Few structural isomers of colloids, with identical masses but different structures, have been identified. Here, the authors observe an interesting example of structural isomerism in a pair of semiconductor magic-size clusters, which reversibly transform between one another with first-order unimolecular reaction kinetics.