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Title:
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A facile low temperature growth of CdTe nanocrystals using novel dithiocarbamate ligands in aqueous solution.
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Author:
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Yuwen, Lihui.; Lu, Haoting.; He, Yao.; Chen, Liqin.; Hu, Mei.; Bao, Biqing.; Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang.; Zhang, Hua.; Wang, Lianhui.
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Copyright year:
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2010 |
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Abstract:
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Proline dithiocarbamic acid disodium salt (ProDTC) was first explored as a novel ligand, instead of the usual used thiols, for the synthesis of CdTe nanocrystals (NCs). Due to the weak bonding between Cd ions and ProDTC, CdTe NCs show rapid nucleation and growth at much lower temperature (30–50 ᵒC)
compared to the traditional synthesis in an aqueous solution. Moreover, faster growth of ProDTC-CdTe
NCs under lower pH value was observed, while the thiol-CdTe system has an opposite tendency.
The distinct growth kinetics is ascribed to the different complex constants between ProDTC-Cd and
thiol-Cd, which has significant influence on the monomer activity. Although the photoluminescence
quantum yield (PLQY) of as-prepared NCs was relatively low, it can be easily increased up to about
50% after further treatment of ligand exchange by replacing the surface-binding ProDTC molecules
with the mercaptopropionic acid. |
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Subject:
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DRNTU::Engineering::Materials. |
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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Series/ Journal Title:
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Journal of materials chemistry |
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Rights:
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© 2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of Materials Chemistry, The Royal Society of Chemistry. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b924579k. |
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Version:
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Accepted version |
