Ferroelectric particles were generated through a simple, room-temperature treatment of collodial CdSe quantum dots with SbCl<sub>3</sub>. STEM-EDS, XRD, ATR-IR, and TGA are utilized to observe changes in surface stabilization, elemental composition, and d-spacing of lattice planes to ascertain the nature of the reaction steps. Correlation of the observed chemical and physical changes with ferroelectric polarization elucidates the probable sources of the ferroelectric property.

Characterization of the transformation of collodial CdSe quantum dots into ferroelectric particles

249th National Meeting (2015)

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