Ligand exchange on colloidal CdSe nanocrystals using thermally labile tert-butylthiol for improved photocurrent in nanocrystal films |
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Authors: | Webber David H Brutchey Richard L |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and the Center for Energy Nanoscience and Technology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA. |
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Abstract: | As-prepared CdSe nanocrystals were ligand exchanged using tert-butylthiol, which yielded stable CdSe nanocrystal inks in the strong donor solvent tetramethylurea. The efficacy of ligand exchange was probed by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and FT-IR spectroscopy. By studying sequential exchanges of tetradecylphosphonic acid and then tert-butylthiol, TGA and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic evidence clearly demonstrated that the ligand exchange is essentially quantitative. The resulting tert-butylthiol-exchanged CdSe nanocrystals undergo facile thermal ligand expulsion (≤200 °C), which was studied by TGA-mass spectrometry. Mild thermal treatment of tert-butylthiol-exchanged CdSe nanocrystal films was found to induce loss of quantum confinement (as evidenced by UV-vis spectroscopy) and provided for increased electrochemical photocurrent, electron mobility, and film stability. Pyridine-exchanged CdSe nanocrystals were employed as a control system throughout to demonstrate the beneficial attributes of tert-butylthiol exchange; namely, lower organic content, better colloidal stability, improved interparticle coupling, and vastly increased electrochemical photocurrent response upon illumination. |
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