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RESEARCH SUPPORT, N.I.H., EXTRAMURAL
RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T
RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.
Organic-to-Aqueous Phase Transfer of Cadmium Chalcogenide Quantum Dots using a Sulfur-Free Ligand for Enhanced Photoluminescence and Oxidative Stability.
Chemistry of Materials : a Publication of the American Chemical Society 2016 September 28
This paper describes a procedure for transferring colloidal CdS and CdSe quantum dots (QDs) from organic solvents to water by exchanging their native hydrophobic ligands for phosphonopropionic acid (PPA) ligands, which bind to the QD surface through the phosphonate group. This method, which uses dimethylformamide as an intermediate transfer solvent, was developed in order to produce high-quality water soluble QDs with neither a sulfur-containing ligand nor a polymer encapsulation layer, both of which have disadvantages in applications of QDs to photocatalysis and biological imaging. CdS (CdSe) QDs were transferred to water with a 43% (48%) yield using PPA. The photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield for PPA-capped CdSe QDs is larger than that for QDs capped with the analogous sulfur-containing ligand, mercaptopropionic acid (MPA), by a factor of four at pH 7, and by up to a factor of 100 under basic conditions. The MPA ligands within MPA-capped QDs oxidize at Eox ~ +1.7 V vs. SCE, whereas cyclic voltammograms of PPA-capped QDs show no discerible oxidation peaks at applied potentials up to +2.5 V vs. SCE. The PPA-capped QDs are chemically and colloidally stable for at least five days in the dark, even in the presence of O2 , and are stable when continuously illuminated for five days, when oxygen is excluded and a sacrificial reductant is present to capture photogenerated holes.
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