Ligand-controlled rates of photoinduced electron transfer in hybrid CdSe nanocrystal/poly(viologen) films

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9907-9917

  Tagliazucchi, Mario ^a   Tice, Daniel B ^a   Sweeney, Christina M ^a   Morris Cohen, Adam J ^a   Weiss, Emily A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CdSe quantum dot; intermolecular structure; layer by layer deposition; photoinduced electron transfer; poly(viologen); transient absorption

Indexed keywords

INTERMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; LAYER BY LAYER DEPOSITION; PHOTO-INDUCED ELECTRON TRANSFER; POLY(VIOLOGEN); TRANSIENT ABSORPTION;

CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LIGANDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

RATE CONSTANTS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; LIGAND; NANOMATERIAL; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; VIOLOGEN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; KINETICS; LIGANDS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; VIOLOGENS;

EID: 84555177270     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203683s     Document Type: Article

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