摘要:
The present invention provides a method of surface passivation of colloidal nanocrystalline materials using a ligand exchange process in which quantum nanoparticles of pre-selected size and shape has polymer multidentate ligands bound at the surface of the nanocrystals for stabilizing quantum size-dependent properties of nanocrystals and providing colloidal stability of the nanoparticles in solvents. The method includes preparing a colloidal dispersion of nanoparticles, preparing a suitable polymer multidentate ligand and dissolving said suitable polymer multidentate ligand in a fluid, the polymer multidentate ligand having first portions which can bind to a surface of the nanoparticles and a second portion which does not bind to the surface of the nanoparticles, and mixing the fluid containing the suitable polymer with the colloidal dispersion of nanoparticles under conditions suitable to induce binding of at least some of the first portions of the polymer multidentate ligand onto the surface of the nanoparticles, the suitable polymer multidentate ligand being selected so that the at least some of the first portions which bind to the surface to stabilize quantum size-dependent properties of the nanocrystals, and the second portion which does not bind to the surface provides colloidal stability of the nanoparticles in a desired fluid.