A new two‐phase route to cadmium sulfide quantum dots using amphiphilic hyperbranched polymers as unimolecular nanoreactors

A new two-phase route was developed to prepare monodisperse cadmium sulfide (CdS) quantum dots (QDs) with a narrow size distribution. In a two-phase system, chloroform and water were used as separate solvents for palmitoyl chloride functionalized hyperbranched polyamidoamine (HPAMAM-PC) and cadmium acetate/sodium sulfide, respectively. The amphiphilic HPAMAM-PC, with a hydrophilic dendritic core and hydrophobic arms, formed stable unimolecular micelles in chloroform and was used to encapsulate aqueous Cd2+ ions. After the reaction with S2− ions from the aqueous phase, monodisperse and uniform-sized CdS QDs stabilized by HPAMAM-PC unimolecular micelles were obtained. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci 120:991–997, 2011

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