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. 2017 Aug 24;8:343. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00153-y

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

In vitro etching of various QDs with Ag-TS. PL spectra of the QDs before (red) and after (blue) etching are shown. The emission peaks of the QDs are also listed. The boxed panels show fluorescence images of the QD aqueous solutions with or without etching. QDs synthesized in-house (i.e., Mn/ZnS-QD) and high-quality commercial QDs (i.e., CdSe/ZnS-QD, InP/ZnS-QD, and CIS/ZnS-QD) were each etchable by Ag-TS. The Mn/ZnS-QD, InP/ZnS- and CIS/ZnS-QDs had coatings of 3-mercaptopropionic acid. Amphiphiliccoating with HS-(CH2)11-(OCH2CH2)6-NH2 prevented CIS/ZnS-QD from being etched