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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 25.
Published in final edited form as: Nanoscale. 2016 Aug 25;8(34):15645–15657. doi: 10.1039/c6nr03829h

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

(A) Proposed scheme of one-step synthesis of SiPM a) AA reduce APTES to yield SiNC and hydrolyzed APTES form siloxance-like polymer matrices; b) formation of polymer matrices embedded with few SiNC; c) Spherical SiPM with more SiNC. (B) SEM image of typical synthetized SiPM (8 nm Pt/Pd sputtered). (C) TEM and HRTEM images of SiPM slices (70 nm thickness) cut with an ultramicrotome. (D) UV-vis absorbance and photoluminescence (PL) spectra of SiPM. Insets are picture of dispersed solution of SiPM with and without UV irradiation at 365 nm. (E) N2 adsorption/desorption isotherms of SiPM (24 h reaction time), inset displays Dubinin-Astakov (DA) pore-size distribution curve obtained from the adsorption branch.