Integrated Computational Engineering, Characterization and Validation of Semiconductor Colloidal Nanocrystals with Advanced Properties - ICENAP

Project summary

ICENAP will design new nanocrystals and tailor microstructural changes in known ones during processing to obtain the following improved properties: - photoluminescent (PL) quantum yield exceeding 90% irrespective of QD concentration; - minimum blinking; - inorganic shells designed to ensure stable QD PL for at least 12 months; - organic shells ensuring QD stability in biological media for at least 6 months. New technologies will be developed based on modeling and simulation using material physics-based design principles. The results will be used for the synthesis of QD cores and their layer-by-layer coating with inorganic shells, utilizing structural models that fit their structure seen in HRTEM. The predicted properties of this next generation QDs will be experimentally validated. ICENAP combines modeling, simulation and validation of a new class of nanomaterials, which will have a strategic impact and create new dynamism by accumulation of new knowledge along the innovation chain.