CdSe nanoparticle elasticity and surface energy.

Huxter, Vanessa M; Lee, Anna; Lo, Shun S; Scholes, Gregory D · Nano Lett · 2009

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

The acoustic phonon modes of colloidal CdSe nanoparticles in solution (293 K) are passively measured by a third order ultrafast heterodyne cross-polarized transient grating measurement. Using the observed size-dependence of the acoustic phonon frequency, the elastic properties of the nanoparticles are determined. The size-dependence of the elastic modulus is then used to ascertain information about the relative surface energies of the nanocrystals and suggests the extent and depth of surface reconstruction.

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