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Chemgod1
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Topic Started by Chemgod1
on 8/5/2008 10:00 AM
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Hi,

I am running an experiment with cadmium telluride (CdTe) quantum dots. I need to know how to calculate molarity of QD's? I know I can use initial Cadmium concentration to calculate assuming I know the diameter of QD to be about 5-5nm. but I also need to know how many Cd ions there are in each QD (approximatly on average)?

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Posted By sally208 on 8/18/2008 21:59 PM
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For your Q, I recommend you to read a ref. by Peng et al. ( W. W. Yu, L. Qu, W. Guo and X. Peng, Chem. Mater., 2003, 15, 2854.). Briefly, you can determine the size of CdTe QDs by UV-vis spectrum, then calculate the concentration of QDs. If any questions more, welcome to send e-mail to me. (sally208@ciac.jl.cn). Good luck!