Oddly, the ligand shell peak, relative to inorganic peaks, is of greater total intensity in the solvated spectra when compared to powered spectra. Solvated measurements of myristate capped quantum dots treated with zinc chloride also appear to have greater intensity ligand shell peaks, despite having disrupted ordering of surface ligands (Figure ). However, previous work suggests that this may be a feature of studying ligand shells with X-ray diffraction. When treated with indium chloride, the ligand shell peak of powered of indium phosphide quantum dots only a slight decrease in intensity, even though the reaction with indium chloride displaces much more organic ligand than the reaction with zinc chloride. While it appears that ordered ligands on the surface of colloidal quantum dots can be detected by X-ray diffraction in the liquid state, it may be difficult to quantitatively infer much about the structure from the measurements, due to the challenges of subtracting the solvent peak.