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currents are very low with conductivity values more characteristic of asemiconductor. This is a result of the organic capping molecules. The electronsmust either hop from metal core to metal core via an activated process ortunnel through the organic medium surrounding the nanocrystals. The currentwas also found to decrease as the interparticle separation increased. Attemperatures lower than approximately 200 K, the conductivity decreasedwith decreasing temperature, characteristic of a semiconductor. With oneexception [64], the researchers attribute this behavior to a thermally activatedhopping process. Two of the studies [63,64] found nonlinear I–V curves nearzero bias at low temperatures (T

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