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Cadmium sulfide

powder

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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:
12352300
PubChem Substance ID:
24852497
NACRES:
NA.23

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grade

synthesis grade

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.

Packaging

Packaged in glass bottles

Signal Word

Danger

Hazard Classifications

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

Storage Class Code

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

WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

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Huan-Wei Tseng et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(9), 3383-3386 (2013-02-15)
We describe the charge transfer interactions between photoexcited CdS nanorods and mononuclear water oxidation catalysts derived from the [Ru(bpy)(tpy)Cl](+) parent structure. Upon excitation, hole transfer from CdS oxidizes the catalyst (Ru(2+) → Ru(3+)) on a 100 ps to 1 ns
Benoit Mahler et al.
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(45), 18591-18598 (2012-10-13)
We have recently synthesized atomically flat semiconductor colloidal nanoplatelets with quasi 2D geometry. Here, we show that core/shell nanoplatelets can be obtained with a 2D geometry that is conserved. The epitaxial growth of the shell semiconductor is performed at room
Jianjun Tian et al.
Nanoscale, 5(3), 936-943 (2012-11-21)
Photoelectrode made of nanocable structure of ZnO nanorods (NR) coated with TiO(2) nanosheets (NSs) was investigated for CdS/CdSe quantum dot co-sensitized solar cells. ZnO NRs prepared solution reaction at 60 °C served as the backbone for direct electron transport in
Shaoping Lv et al.
Analytica chimica acta, 772, 26-32 (2013-04-02)
The electrochemical detection of cell lines of MCF-7 (human breast cancer) has been reported, using magnetic beads for the separation tool and high-affinity DNA aptamers for signal recognition. The high specificity was obtained by using the magnetic beads and aptamers
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
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