and Y. Andrew Wang

TL;DR: Experimental results clearly indicated that the initiation stage of the photooxidation of CdSe nanocrystals was not caused by the chemical oxidation of the system kept in air under dark conditions or the hydrolysis of the cadmium-thiol bonds on the surface of the nanocrystal, both of which were magnitudes slower than the photocatalytic oxidization of the surface ligands if they occurred at all.

TL;DR: In this article, the formation of nearly monodisperse CdTe nanocrystals was studied, and the ligand effects on the monomers were found to play a more important role than ligand effect on the nanocrystal and the bonding strength and steric effects of ligands dramatically affect the reactivity of monomers and are considered as contributors to the activity coefficients of monomer.

TL;DR: The surface ligands, generation-3 (G3) dendrons) on each semiconductor nanocrystal were globally cross-linked through ring-closing metathesis (RCM), which yielded box-nanocrystals, which may represent a general solution for the commonly encountered instability for many types of colloidal nanocrystals.

TL;DR: A dendron ligand with two carboxylate anchoring groups at its focal point and eight hydroxyl groups as its terminal groups was found to efficiently convert as-synthesized CdSe/CdS core-shell nanocrystals in toluene to water-soluble dendRON-ligand stabilized nanocrystal (dendron nanocry crystals).