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Cadmium sulfide

powder, 99.995% trace metals basis

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Linear Formula:
CdS
CAS Number:
1306-23-6
Molecular Weight:
144.48
EC Number:
215-147-8
MDL number:
MFCD00010922
UNSPSC Code:
26111700
PubChem Substance ID:
24853040
NACRES:
NA.23

assay

99.995% trace metals basis

form

powder

mol wt

Mw 144.5 g/mol(lit.)

reaction suitability

reagent type: catalyst
core: cadmium

mp

−1750 °C (at a pressure of 100 bar) (lit.)

solubility

H2O: insoluble(lit.)

density

4.82 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.)

SMILES string

S=[Cd]

InChI

1S/Cd.S

InChI key

CJOBVZJTOIVNNF-UHFFFAOYSA-N

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General description

Natural occurrence: hawleyite (structural type of sphalerite) and greenockite (structural type of wurtzite)

Application

Applications: pigment in the chemical industry; photoresistors; optical-electronic pairs, photodiodes, solar batteries; phosphors. Single crystals of cadmium sulfide are used for the preparation of optical devices operating in the infrared regaion of spectrum. Cadmium sulfide is a direct band gap semiconductor with a band gap band from 2.42 to 2.57 eV.
CdS nanowires were synthesized from CdS powder.

Packaging

Packaged in poly bottles

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 4 Oral - Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 1 - Carc. 1B - Muta. 2 - Repr. 2 - STOT RE 1

Storage Class

6.1D - Non-combustible acute toxic Cat.3 / toxic hazardous materials or hazardous materials causing chronic effects

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Assembly and force measurement with SPM-like probes in holographic optical tweezers.
Ikin L, et al.
New Journal of Physics, 11(2) (2009)
Shancheng Yan et al.
Journal of nanoscience and nanotechnology, 13(6), 4242-4246 (2013-07-19)
A roll-on transfer strategy is developed to enable large-scale and uniform assembly of CdS nanowires on various rigid and flexible substrate materials. In this method, the CdS nanowires were synthesized by the hydrothermal method. The dispersed CdS NWs could be
Janusz Szeremeta et al.
Nanoscale, 5(6), 2388-2393 (2013-02-12)
Wide wavelength range (550-1600 nm) measurements of nonlinear optical properties of ca. 5 nm CdS quantum dots (QDs) colloidal solution were performed using the Z-scan technique with femtosecond laser pulses at 1 kHz. Parameters characterizing nonlinear absorption and nonlinear refraction
C Javaux et al.
Nature nanotechnology, 8(3), 206-212 (2013-02-12)
Applications of semiconductor nanocrystals such as biomarkers and light-emitting optoelectronic devices require that their fluorescence quantum yield be close to 100%. However, such quantum yields have not been obtained yet, in part, because non-radiative Auger recombination in charged nanocrystals could
Bandgap-graded CdS(x)Se(1-x) nanowires for high-performance field-effect transistors and solar cells.
Liang Li et al.
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 25(8), 1109-1113 (2012-12-13)
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