Role of Surface States in Photocatalysis: Study of Chlorine-Passivated CdSe Nanocrystals for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 962-968

  Kim, Whi Dong ^a   Kim, Ji Hee ^b   Lee, Sooho ^a   Lee, Seokwon ^a   Woo, Ju Young ^a,c   Lee, Kangha ^a   Chae, Weon Sik ^d   Jeong, Sohee ^c   Bae, Wan Ki ^e   McGuire, John A ^f   Moon, Jun Hyuk ^g   Jeong, Mun Seok ^b   Lee, Doh C ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Institute of Machine and Materials   (South Korea)

^d Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^e Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^f MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CATALYSIS; CHARGE TRAPPING; CHLORINE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRAPS; PASSIVATION; PHOTOCATALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; SURFACE DEFECTS; SURFACE STATES;

CHLORINE PASSIVATIONS; CONDUCTION BAND EDGE; HYDROGEN EVOLUTION RATE; PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOCATALYTIC HYDROGEN; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM YIELDS; REDUCTION POTENTIAL; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPIES;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

EID: 84957991491     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04790     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Harris, C.; Kamat, P. V. Photocatalytic Events of CdSe Quantum Dots in Confined Media. Electrodic Behavior of Coupled Platinum Nanoparticles ACS Nano 2010, 4, 7321-7330 10.1021/nn102564x
2. Zhao, J.; Holmes, M. A.; Osterloh, F. E. Quantum Confinement Controls Photocatalysis: A Free Energy Analysis for Photocatalytic Proton Reduction at CdSe Nanocrystals ACS Nano 2013, 7, 4316-4325 10.1021/nn400826h
3. 2-Sensitized Quantum Dot Solar Cell. Electrophoretic Deposition, Excited-State Dynamics, and Photovoltaic Performance J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2013, 4, 722-729 10.1021/jz400181m
4. Thibert, A.; Frame, F. A.; Busby, E.; Holmes, M. A.; Osterloh, F. E.; Larsen, D. S. Sequestering High-Energy Electrons to Facilitate Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation in CdSe/CdS Nanocrystals J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2011, 2, 2688-2694 10.1021/jz2013193
5. Manna, L.; Scher, E. C.; Alivisatos, A. P. Synthesis of Soluble and Processable Rod-, Arrow-, Teardrop-, and Tetrapod-Shaped CdSe Nanocrystals J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 12700-12706 10.1021/ja003055+
6. Peng, Z. A.; Peng, X. G. Formation of High-Quality CdTe, CdSe, and CdS Nanocrystals Using CdO as Precursor J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 183-184 10.1021/ja003633m
7. Ip, A. H.; Thon, S. M.; Hoogland, S.; Voznyy, O.; Zhitomirsky, D.; Debnath, R.; Levina, L.; Rollny, L. R.; Carey, G. H.; Fischer, A.; Kemp, K. W.; Kramer, I. J.; Ning, Z. J.; Labelle, A. J.; Chou, K. W.; Amassian, A.; Sargent, E. H. Hybrid Passivated Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids Nat. Nanotechnol. 2012, 7, 577-582 10.1038/nnano.2012.127
8. Hines, D. A.; Kamat, P. V. Recent Advances in Quantum Dot Surface Chemistry ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2014, 6, 3041-3057 10.1021/am405196u
9. Page, R. C.; Espinobarro-Velazquez, D.; Leontiadou, M. A.; Smith, C.; Lewis, E. A.; Haigh, S. J.; Li, C.; Radtke, H.; Pengpad, A.; Bondino, F.; Magnano, E.; Pis, I.; Flavell, W. R.; O'Brien, P.; Binks, D. J. Near-Unity Quantum Yields from Chloride Treated CdTe Colloidal Quantum Dots Small 2015, 11, 1548-1554 10.1002/smll.201402264
10. Ning, Z. J.; Voznyy, O.; Pan, J.; Hoogland, S.; Adinolfi, V.; Xu, J. X.; Li, M.; Kirmani, A. R.; Sun, J. P.; Minor, J.; Kemp, K. W.; Dong, H. P.; Rollny, L.; Labelle, A.; Carey, G.; Sutherland, B.; Hill, I. G.; Amassian, A.; Liu, H.; Tang, J.; Bakr, O. M.; Sargent, E. H. Air-Stable N-Type Colloidal Quantum Dot Solids Nat. Mater. 2014, 13, 822-828 10.1038/nmat4007
11. Chuang, C. H. M.; Brown, P. R.; Bulovic, V.; Bawendi, M. G. Improved Performance and Stability in Quantum Dot Solar Cells through Band Alignment Engineering Nat. Mater. 2014, 13, 796-801 10.1038/nmat3984
12. Woo, J. Y.; Ko, J. H.; Song, J. H.; Kim, K.; Choi, H.; Kim, Y. H.; Lee, D. C.; Jeong, S. Ultrastable PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Via in Situ Formation of Atomically Thin Halide Adlayers on PbSe(100) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8883-8886 10.1021/ja503957r
13. Bae, W. K.; Joo, J.; Padilha, L. A.; Won, J.; Lee, D. C.; Lin, Q. L.; Koh, W. K.; Luo, H. M.; Klimov, V. I.; Pietryga, J. M. Highly Effective Surface Passivation of Pbse Quantum Dots through Reaction with Molecular Chlorine J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 20160-20168 10.1021/ja309783v
14. Dirin, D. N.; Dreyfuss, S.; Bodnarchuk, M. I.; Nedelcu, G.; Papagiorgis, P.; Itskos, G.; Kovalenko, M. V. Lead Halide Perovskites and Other Metal Halide Complexes as Inorganic Capping Ligands for Colloidal Nanocrystals J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 6550-6553 10.1021/ja5006288
15. Greaney, M. J.; Couderc, E.; Zhao, J.; Nail, B. A.; Mecklenburg, M.; Thornbury, W.; Osterloh, F. E.; Bradforth, S. E.; Brutchey, R. L. Controlling the Trap State Landscape of Colloidal CdSe Nanocrystals with Cadmium Halide Ligands Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 744-756 10.1021/cm503529j
16. Baker, D. R.; Kamat, P. V. Tuning the Emission of CdSe Quantum Dots by Controlled Trap Enhancement Langmuir 2010, 26, 11272-11276 10.1021/la100580g
17. Bullen, C. R.; Mulvaney, P. Nucleation and Growth Kinetics of CdSe Nanocrystals in Octadecene Nano Lett. 2004, 4, 2303-2307 10.1021/nl0496724
18. 2 Generation J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 3781-3785 10.1021/jz301732n
19. Kim, D.; Kim, W. D.; Kang, M. S.; Kim, S. H.; Lee, D. C. Self-Organization of Nanorods into Ultra-Long Range Two-Dimensional Monolayer End-to-End Network Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 714-720 10.1021/nl504259v
20. Lim, S. J.; Kim, W.; Jung, S.; Seo, J.; Shin, S. K. Anisotropic Etching of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Chem. Mater. 2011, 23, 5029-5036 10.1021/cm202514a
21. Zhang, H.; Jang, J.; Liu, W.; Talapin, D. V. Colloidal Nanocrystals with Inorganic Halide, Pseudohalide, and Halometallate Ligands ACS Nano 2014, 8, 7359-7369 10.1021/nn502470v
22. Anderson, N. C.; Hendricks, M. P.; Choi, J. J.; Owen, J. S. Ligand Exchange and the Stoichiometry of Metal Chalcogenide Nanocrystals: Spectroscopic Observation of Facile Metal-Carboxylate Displacement and Binding J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18536-18548 10.1021/ja4086758
23. Guyot-Sionnest, P.; Wehrenberg, B.; Yu, D. Intraband Relaxation in CdSe Nanocrystals and the Strong Influence of the Surface Ligands J. Chem. Phys. 2005, 123, 074709 10.1063/1.2004818
24. Peterson, M. D.; Cass, L. C.; Harris, R. D.; Edme, K.; Sung, K.; Weiss, E. A. The Role of Ligands in Determining the Exciton Relaxation Dynamics in Semiconductor Quantum Dots Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 2014, 65, 317-339 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040513-103649
25. Kim, W. D.; Baum, F.; Kim, D.; Lee, K.; Moon, J. H.; Lee, D. C. Photocorrosion-Assisted Transformation of Metal Selenide Nanocrystals into Crystalline Selenium Nanowires Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14, 1258-1263 10.1021/cg4017849
26. Jasieniak, J.; Califano, M.; Watkins, S. E. Size-Dependent Valence and Conduction Band-Edge Energies of Semiconductor Nanocrystals ACS Nano 2011, 5, 5888-5902 10.1021/nn201681s
27. Holmes, M. A.; Townsend, T. K.; Osterloh, F. E. Quantum Confinement Controlled Photocatalytic Water Splitting by Suspended CdSe Nanocrystals Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 371-373 10.1039/C1CC16082F
28. 2 Shell on CdSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots Enhances Photocatalysis of Hydrogen Evolution from Water J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 23627-23634 10.1021/jp508315m
29. Liu, I. S.; Lo, H. H.; Chien, C. T.; Lin, Y. Y.; Chen, C. W.; Chen, Y. F.; Su, W. F.; Liou, S. C. Enhancing Photoluminescence Quenching and Photoelectric Properties of CdSe Quantum Dots with Hole Accepting Ligands J. Mater. Chem. 2008, 18, 675-682 10.1039/b715253a
30. Klimov, V. I.; McBranch, D. W.; Leatherdale, C. A.; Bawendi, M. G. Electron and Hole Relaxation Pathways in Semiconductor Quantum Dots Phys. Rev. B: Condens. Matter Mater. Phys. 1999, 60, 13740-13749 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.13740
31. Veamatahau, A.; Jiang, B.; Seifert, T.; Makuta, S.; Latham, K.; Kanehara, M.; Teranishi, T.; Tachibana, Y. Origin of Surface Trap States in CdS Quantum Dots: Relationship between Size Dependent Photoluminescence and Sulfur Vacancy Trap States Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2015, 17, 2850-2858 10.1039/C4CP04761C
32. Kim, W. D.; Lee, S.; Pak, C.; Woo, J. Y.; Lee, K.; Baum, F.; Won, J.; Lee, D. C. Metal Tips on Pyramid-Shaped PbSe/CdSe/CdS Heterostructure Nanocrystal Photocatalysts: Study of Ostwald Ripening and Core/Shell Formation Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1719-1721 10.1039/c3cc48919a
33. Burda, C.; Link, S.; Mohamed, M.; El-Sayed, M. The Relaxation Pathways of CdSe Nanoparticles Monitored with Femtosecond Time-Resolution from the Visible to the Ir: Assignment of the Transient Features by Carrier Quenching J. Phys. Chem. B 2001, 105, 12286-12292 10.1021/jp0124589
34. 2 Generation J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2012, 3, 3781-3785 10.1021/jz301732n
35. Wu, K. F.; Zhu, H. M.; Liu, Z.; Rodriguez-Cordoba, W.; Lian, T. Q. Ultrafast Charge Separation and Long-Lived Charge Separated State in Photocatalytic CdS-Pt Nanorod Heterostructures J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 10337-10340 10.1021/ja303306u