Richard Tilley (58Min)

UNSW

Abstract

Liquid phase synthesis is a powerful method for the formation of uniform sized nanoparticles and nanoparticles with a faceted morphology. General strategies for the formation of nanoparticles and through chemical synthesis will be outlined. General strategies for the formation of faceted, branched and core-shell nanoparticles and through chemical synthesis will be outlined. The results presented will include the formation of silicon, germanium, SnS CZTS quantum dots. HRTEM and XRD data confirming crystal structure and composition will be outlined. The results presented will include optical characterization and surface modification chemistry. Transition metal doping of silicon quantum dots with also be discussed.

Brief Bio

Professor Richard Tilley has recently been appointed the Director of Electron Microscope Unit and Professor in Chemistry at UNSW. Richard graduated with a Masters of Chemistry from Oxford University, UK and completed his PhD in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. After which he was a Postdoctoral Fellow for two years at the Toshiba basic R&D Center, Japan. Before joining the EMU Richard was an academic in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences and ran the electron microscope facility at the Victoria University of Wellington and the MacDiarmid Institute, New Zealand.