Patent 6576291 Issued on June 10, 2003. Estimated Expiration Date: December 8, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
427/215, Inorganic base75/10.62, Reducing or smelting75/343, Producing or purifying free metal powder or producing or purifying alloys in powder form (i.e., named or of size up to 1,000 microns in its largest dimension)75/362, Decomposition of organo-compound containing metal or metal carbonyl75/370, Using nonmetallic material which is liquid under standard conditions427/314, Heating or drying pretreatment516/33, The material primarily contains inorganic material (e.g., chrome yellow, sodium nitrite)516/922COLLOID SYSTEMS HAVING SPECIFIED PARTICLE SIZE, RANGE, OR DISTRIBUTION (E.G., BIMODAL PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION)
A method of manufacturing a nanocrystallite from a M-containing salt forms a nanocrystallite. The nanocrystallite can be a member of a population of nanocrystallites having a narrow size distribution and can include one or more semiconductor materials. Semiconducting nanocrystallites can photoluminesce and can have high emission quantum efficiencies.
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