Agent capping

This technique is widely used for the fabrication of quantum dots. This can be illustrated by the preparation of near-monodisperse semiconductor CdSe nanocrystallites with diameters ranging from 1.2 to 11.5 nm by rapid injection of organometallic reagents (dimethylcadmium and tributylphosphine selenide) into a hot coordinating solvent (trioctylphosphine oxide) that acts as a capping agent [40]. This reaction can be carried out in macroscopic quantities in a single step. 

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The stmctural architecture of siUcone polymers, such as the number of D, T, and Q sites and the number and type of cross-link sites, can be deterrnined by a degradative analysis technique in which the polymer is allowed to react with a large excess of a capping agent, such as hexamethyidisiloxane, in the presence of a suitable equiUbration catalyst (eq. 38). Triflic acid is often used as a catalyst because it promotes the depolymerization process at ambient temperature (444). A related process employs the KOH- or KOC2H -catalyzed reaction of siUcones with excess Si(OC2H )4 (eq. 39) to produce ethoxylated methylsiUcon species, which are quantitatively deterrnined by gc (445). 

Organic Species Surfactant or Polymer-Capping Agents... 

Growth along the one axis Capping agents stabiiize other pianes... 

Figure 3. Several strategies on controlling the shape of nanoparticles (a) organic molecules or polymers as capping agents, (b) inorganic molecules as face-selective catalysts, and (c) inorganic molecules as face-selective etchants.

A-Acetylimidazole was found to be a very efficient terminating (capping) agent in the solid-phase synthesis of peptides.t40],[41] A terminating agent is used to block any N-terminal amino groups that have not reacted in the coupling steps.[40]... 

If reaction (13) is carried out under H2 in the absence of capping agent then oligomers with Mjj 2000 D can be isolated following distillation of the volatile cyclomers. We believe that in this case the product polymers are both condensed ring systems and hydrogen capped linear oligomers. 

Absorption spectra of CdS colloid indicate the formation of quantum sized CdS particles. The particle size increased upon sonication, indicated by the red shift in the onset of absorption. The particle size was highly dependent on the mercaptan used, because of the absorption of the mercaptan on the particle acting as a capping agent and the rate of H2S produced. Study of mercaptan systems revealed that there was also a thermal process responsible for CdS formation. 25% of the total CdS produced sonochemically was formed via a thermal mechanism presumably in the hot shell around the compressed bubble. CdS colloid could be dissolved quite readily by sonicating solutions under air saturated conditions [89] by the following reaction,... 

CXLs also have potential as media for inorganic nanoparticle synthesis due to reasonable solubilities of material precursors, capping agents, and reducing agents,... 

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