Nanoparticles

Nanoparticles (NP) are an interesting material class, they show a wide variety of properties such as luminescence, super-paramagnetism and plasmon resonance for example. Most of these properties depend on the size and/or form of the NP, therefore it is very important to synthesize monodisperse and uniform NP. For the ability to tune the size and/or form of the NP it would be very beneficial to understand the nucleation and growth kinetics. To investigate this we developed an in-situ SAXS setup.

References:

• S. Ehlert , T. Lunkenbein, J. Breu, S. Förster
  Facile large-scale synthetic route to monodisperse ZnO nanocrystals
  Colloids and Surfaces A 2014,444,76

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