“…Recent advances in InP synthesis include the development of novel synthetic schemes that drive down the cost and environmental impact of InP synthesis while also improving photophysical performance. − These Type I and Quasi-Type II InP QDs exhibit high quantum yields with reasonably narrow emission peak full width half maximums (FWHM <40 nm), , but do not emit throughout the first optical tissue window; reported emission peaks for colloidal InP are all below 750 nm, regardless of synthesis method. ,− Indium phosphide cores with cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide shells emit at wavelengths >1000 nm, but the Type II band alignment of these structures coincides with longer photoluminescence lifetimes and lower quantum yields in addition to the unfortunate inclusion of cadmium. − In order to address the shortcomings of InP tunability in the NIR, copper-doped InP and ternary systems such as copper indium sulfide have been developed. − These systems exhibit dopant-based NIR emission, but this emission mechanism is thought to inherently limit the maximum brightness of the emitters and increase the emission peak width. − Alternative NIR-emitting QD structures continue to be developed, including Ag 2 S and Ag 2 Se, which can exhibit narrow PL across the visible and NIR-II wavelength ranges. − However, despite intensive synthetic efforts, these silver-based systems suffer from comparably low quantum yields and poor photostability, particularly at NIR wavelengths, even when shelled with wide bandgap semiconductors. − Our recent work describing CdSe shell emission demonstrated that lower energy/longer wavelength peak emission was feasible with confinement in the QD shell layer than with the same volume of CdSe in the traditional spherical QD morphology. , Given concerns that a “growth bottleneck” precludes synthesis of InP cores large enough to produce emission peaks spanning the entire NIR emission range theoretically possible for this material, we hypothesized that an InP shell structure may enable lower energy emission than we have observed with InP cores.…”