A New Nonhydrolytic Single-Precursor Approach to Surfactant-Capped Nanocrystals of Transition Metal Oxides

TLDR: In this article, a non-hydrolytic single-precursor approach to the synthesis of dispersable nanocrystals of transition metal oxides is presented, which is of considerable interest to us.

Abstract: The advent of new methods to prepare semiconductor and metal nanocrystals, specifically the injection of molecular precursors into hot organic surfactants, has yielded markedly improved samples with good size control, narrow size distribution, and good crystallinity of individual and dispersable nanocrystals. It is of considerable interest to apply these methods to the synthesis of transition metal oxide nanoparticles, which typically are prepared by methods involving water as solvent or reactant. The authors report the first results of a new nonhydrolytic single-precursor approach to the synthesis of dispersable nanocrystals of transition metal oxides.