Size-Dependent Dissociation pH of Thiolate Ligands from Cadmium Chalcogenide Nanocrystals
| Autor: | Xiaogang Peng, Yunjun Wang, Jose Aldana, Natasha Lavelle |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Aqueous solution Inorganic chemistry Protonation General Chemistry Hydrogen-Ion Concentration Ligands Biochemistry Catalysis Cadmium sulfide Dissociation (chemistry) Nanostructures Kinetics chemistry.chemical_compound Colloid and Surface Chemistry Deprotonation Semiconductors Nanocrystal chemistry Quantum dot Chalcogens Thermodynamics Titration Sulfhydryl Compounds Cadmium |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127:2496-2504 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5126 0002-7863 |
| Popis: | A method, pseudo steady-state titration, is introduced for determining the precipitation pH of nanocrystals coated by electron-donating ligands. CdSe nanocrystals coated with hydrophilic deprotonated thiol (thiolate) ligands were studied systematically. For comparison, CdTe and CdS nanocrystals coated with the same types of ligands were also examined. The results show that the precipitation of the nanocrystals is caused by the dissociation of the nanocrystal-ligand coordinating bonds from the nanocrystal surface. The ligands are removed from the surface due to protonation in a relatively low pH range, between 2 and 7 depending on the size, approximately within the quantum confinement size regime, and chemical composition (band gap) of the nanocrystals. In contrast, the redispersion of the nanocrystals was found to be solely determined by the deprotonation of the ligands. The size-dependent dissociation pH of the ligands was tentatively used as a means for determining the size-dependent free energy associated with the formation of a nanocrystal-ligand coordinating bond. |
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