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Precipitation from solution under highly nonequilibrium conditions can be used to prepare cadmium telluride nanocrystals with a stable cubic (sphalerite) structure or clusters with a metastable structure close to that of wurtzite CdTe, depending on the process conditions.
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Original Russian Text © A.D. Styrkas, 2008, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 545–548.
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Styrkas, A.D. CdTe nanoparticles and clusters. Inorg Mater 44, 470–474 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168508050075
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