Surfactant stops colloidal nanocrystals sticking

The surfactant Triton X-100 could help prevent colloidal metal nanocrystals from sticking to the water-oil interface in droplet reactors, according to new experiments by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US and Zhejiang University in China. The new finding could greatly improve the yield of nanocrystals produced by this processing technique…..

http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/57813

Surfactant or no surfactant?