Hybrid Electrochemical/Chemical Synthesis of Quantum Dots
- 19 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Accounts of Chemical Research
- Vol. 33 (2) , 78-86
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ar9702839
Abstract
The “electrochemical/chemical method” (or “E/C method”) is a new wet chemical method for synthesizing semiconductor quantum dots on graphite surfaces. The E/C synthesis of quantum dots composed of the generic semiconducting salt, MX, typically involves three steps: (1) electrochemical deposition of nanoparticles of the metal, M°, from a solution of metal ions, Mn+; (2) electrochemical oxidation of these metal particles to MOn/2, and; (3) displacement of the oxygen from MOn/2 using HX (for example) to yield nanoparticles of MX. This conversion from metal to metal oxide to metal salt occurs on a particle-by-particle basis; that is, each metal nanoparticle is converted into a semiconductor nanoparticle. E/C-synthesized β-CuI and CdS quantum dots possess many of the attributes of quantum dots synthesized using molecular beam epitaxy, including epitaxial orientation on the graphite surface, a narrow size dispersion, and strong, particle size-tunable photoluminescence. However, the E/C method is faster, cheaper, and applicable to a greater number of materials.Keywords
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