TY - JOUR
T1 - Chemical potential and symmetry properties for excess electrons on polymer nanoparticles
T2 - Quantum drops
AU - Runge, Keith
AU - Sumpter, Bobby G.
AU - Noid, Donald W.
AU - Barnes, Michael D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Research sponsored by the Division of Materials Sciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC05-96OR22464 with Lockheed Martin Energy Research KR supported by an appointment jointly by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
PY - 1999/1/11
Y1 - 1999/1/11
N2 - Quantum drops, polymer nanoparticles with excess electrons, can be produced in a monodispersed aerosol from solution. The electronic properties of excess charges on the polymer nanoparticles are predicted to be analogous to those of semiconductor quantum dots and hence these structures are referred to as quantum drops. Quantum drops have controllable physical properties including radius, composition, chemical potential and magnetic properties and can be obtained in the gas phase. We consider the chemical potential and symmetry point groups of electrons confined on the surface of these spherical polymer nanoparticles, using a model Hamiltonian and semiclassical quantization.
AB - Quantum drops, polymer nanoparticles with excess electrons, can be produced in a monodispersed aerosol from solution. The electronic properties of excess charges on the polymer nanoparticles are predicted to be analogous to those of semiconductor quantum dots and hence these structures are referred to as quantum drops. Quantum drops have controllable physical properties including radius, composition, chemical potential and magnetic properties and can be obtained in the gas phase. We consider the chemical potential and symmetry point groups of electrons confined on the surface of these spherical polymer nanoparticles, using a model Hamiltonian and semiclassical quantization.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0009-2614(98)01271-8
DO - 10.1016/S0009-2614(98)01271-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0039211375
SN - 0009-2614
VL - 299
SP - 352
EP - 357
JO - Chemical Physics Letters
JF - Chemical Physics Letters
IS - 3-4
ER -