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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2011

Femtosecond ligand/core dynamics of microwave-assisted synthesized silicon quantum dots in aqueous solution.

Tonya M Atkins, Arthur Thibert, Delmar S Larsen, Sanchita Dey, Nigel D Browning, Susan M Kauzlarich

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. One-Pot Gram-Scale Synthesis of Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Nanoparticles.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2018
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6 authors.

Tonya M AtkinsDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Arthur Thibert
Delmar S Larsen
Sanchita Dey
Nigel D Browning
Susan M Kauzlarich

Funding

Nontoxic Si Nanoprobes for Mulitple Biomarker ImagingR01EB008576 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI LOUIE, ANGELIQUE Y · 2008 to 2011
$1.3M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB008576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A microwave-assisted reaction has been developed to produce hydrogen-terminated silicon quantum dots (QDs). The Si QDs were passivated for water solubility via two different methods: hydrosilylation produced 3-aminopropenyl-terminated Si QDs, and a modified Stöber process produced silica-encapsulated Si QDs. Both methods produce water-soluble QDs with maximum emission at 414 nm, and after purification, the QDs exhibit intrinsic fluorescence quantum yield efficiencies of 15 and 23%, respectively. Even though the QDs have different surfaces, they exhibit nearly identical absorption and fluorescence spectra. Femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy was used for temporal resolution of the photoexcited carrier dynamics between the QDs and ligand. The transient dynamics of the 3-aminopropenyl-terminated Si QDs is interpreted as a formation and decay of a charge-transfer (CT) excited state between the delocalized π electrons of the carbon linker and the Si core excitons. This CT state is stable for ~4 ns before reverting back to a more stable, long-living species. The silica-encapsulated Si QDs show a simpler spectrum without CT dynamics.

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Quantum DotsHydrogenLigandsMicrowavesNanotechnologySiliconSolubilityWaterHydrogenLigandsSiliconWater

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PMID22103236
PMCPMC3377765

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