Silica-coating of quantum nanorods by a sol–gel process and their photo-bleaching properties

Autor: Masaya Kambayashi, Stephan Dertinger, Yuki Hirayama, Masaki Hasegawa, Mai Yokokawa, Yoshio Kobayashi, Hiroshi Okura, Ting ting Li, Kouichi Nakashima
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. 86:773-781
ISSN: 1573-4846
0928-0707
DOI: 10.1007/s10971-018-4674-2
Popis: This paper describes silica-coating of rod-structured nanoparticles composed of cadmium compounds, or quantum rods (QR), by means of a sol–gel method. QRs surface-modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI) (QR/PEI) had an average lateral size of 6.7 ± 0.9 nm and an average longitudinal size of 24.4 ± 2.5 nm. Silica-coated QR nanoparticles (QR/SiO2) were fabricated with a sol–gel process using water, sodium hydroxide, and tetraethylorthosilicate in ethanol in the presence of the QR/PEI nanoparticles. The QR/SiO2 nanoparticles were core-shell particles composed of the QRs as the core, the PEI as the matrix, and the silica as the shells. The colloid solution of QR/SiO2 nanoparticles showed more stable fluorescence to aging in a dark box in atmosphere at room temperature than that of QR/PEI nanoparticles.
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