Electrochemical Synthesis of CdSe quantum-Dot arrays on a graphene basal plane using mesoporous silica thin-film templates

A mesoporous silica film acts as a template and a potential equalizer between the edge/defect sites and the basal plane of a graphene sheet. Using an electrochemical deposition method of CdSe on these graphene sheets covered with a silica film results in CdSe quantum dots that are evenly distributed in regular hexagonal arrays (see figure). (Figure Presented)