NSF ATE Provenance
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Resource title: Synthesis and Characterization of CdSe Quantum Dots
Producer: NNIN/NNCI (Nicholas Blake, UC Santa Barbara); document NNIN-1340

Source (landing page): https://nnci.net/node/5317
Download URL: https://nnci.net/sites/default/files/2016-12/QD_Synthesis_Blake_TG.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-07-19

Contents:
  - QD_Synthesis_Blake_TG.pdf (teacher prep guide + worksheets; 15pp, SCANNED
    image PDF with no text layer — must be read multimodally)

Hardware/materials: CdO, selenium, myristic acid, 1-octadecene, hexane
(Sigma-Aldrich); fume hood, hot plate; Ocean Optics Red Tide USB650
spectrometer (with USB2000 / USB4000 alternates).

NSF award: non-ATE (NSF NNIN/NNCI).
Rights: NNCI educational materials, openly distributed.

Note: names specific instrument models (Ocean Optics line has seen EOL churn)
— a wet-chemistry lab; expected to classify 'other' and produce a stub report
under the current electronics-only readiness pipeline.