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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Doping of Colloidal Nanocrystals for Optimizing Interfacial Charge Transfer: A Double-Edged Sword.

Sheng He, Anji Ni, Sara T Gebre, Rui Hang, James R McBride, Alexey L Kaledin, Wenxing Yang, Tianquan Lian

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Sheng HeDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1502-0584
Anji NiDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.
Sara T GebreDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0045-6350
Rui HangDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.
James R McBrideDepartment of Chemistry, The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0161-7283
Alexey L KaledinDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3112-3989
Wenxing YangDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3440-9416
Tianquan LianDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, 1515 Dickey Drive Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8351-3690

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Abstract

Doping of colloidal nanocrystals offers versatile ways to improve their optoelectronic properties, with potential applications in photocatalysis and photovoltaics. However, the precise role of dopants on the interfacial charge transfer properties of nanocrystals remains poorly understood. Here, we use a Cu-doped InP@ZnSe quantum dot as a model system to investigate the dopant effects on both the intrinsic photophysics and their interfacial charge transfer by combining time-resolved transient absorption and photoluminescent spectroscopic methods. Our results revealed that the Cu dopant can cause the generation of the self-trapped exciton, which prolongs the exciton lifetime from 48.3 ± 1.7 to 369.0 ± 4.3 ns, facilitating efficient charge separation to slow electron and hole acceptors. However, hole localization into the Cu site alters their energetic levels, slowing hole transfer and accelerating charge recombination loss. This double-edged sword role of dopants in charge transfer properties is important in the future design of nanocrystals for their optoelectronic and photocatalytic applications.

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