Infrared quantum dots: progress, challenges, and opportunities

H Lu, GM Carroll, NR Neale, MC Beard - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Infrared technologies provide tremendous value to our modern-day society. The need for
easy-to-fabricate, solution-processable, tunable infrared active optoelectronic materials has …

Silicon-containing nanomedicine and biomaterials: materials chemistry, multi-dimensional design, and biomedical application

L Chen, S Zhang, Y Duan, X Song, M Chang… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The invention of silica-based bioactive glass in the late 1960s has sparked significant
interest in exploring a wide range of silicon-containing biomaterials from the macroscale to …

Efficient photon upconversion enabled by strong coupling between silicon quantum dots and anthracene

K Wang, RP Cline, J Schwan, JM Strain, ST Roberts… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Hybrid structures formed between organic molecules and inorganic quantum dots can
accomplish unique photophysical transformations by taking advantage of their disparate …

Recent updates on functionalized silicon quantum-dot-based nanoagents for biomedical applications

D Yang, Z Cui, Z Wen, Z Piao, H He, X Wei… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanomaterials are one of the most representative inorganic nanomedicines in
therapeutic biomedicine. Silicon quantum dots (Si QDs) have aroused wide attention in the …

Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion

P Xia, EK Raulerson, D Coleman, CS Gerke… - Nature Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals interfaced with spin-triplet exciton-accepting organic
molecules have emerged as promising materials for converting incoherent long-wavelength …

Introductory lecture: origins and applications of efficient visible photoluminescence from silicon-based nanostructures

L Canham - Faraday Discussions, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
A variety of silicon-based nanostructures with dimensions in the 1–5 nm range now emit
tunable photoluminescence (PL) spanning the visible range. Achievement of high …

Composition-Defined Optical Properties and the Direct-to-Indirect Transition in Core–Shell In1–xGaxP/ZnS Colloidal Quantum Dots

A Gupta, JC Ondry, K Lin, Y Chen… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Semiconductors are commonly divided into materials with direct or indirect band gaps based
on the relative positions of the top of the valence band and the bottom of the conduction …

Designing efficient Si quantum dots and LEDs by quantifying ligand effects

T Ono, Y Xu, T Sakata, K Saitow - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The impact of colloidal silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) on next-generation light sources is
promising. However, factors determining the efficiency of SiQDs, such as the …

Conjugated Imine Polymer Synthesized via Step‐Growth Metathesis for Highly Stable Silicon Nanoparticle Anodes in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

TR Martin, L Rynearson, M Kuller… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This work reports a new method to synthesize polyphenylmethanimine (polyPMI) as a linear
or a hyperbranched, conjugated polymer using an aldehyde‐imine metathesis reaction. This …

Intrinsic chemical reactivity of solid-electrolyte interphase components in silicon–lithium alloy anode batteries probed by FTIR spectroscopy

RT Pekarek, A Affolter, LL Baranowski… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we report the solid reaction products from the chemical reaction of aprotic battery
electrolyte and three purported components of the Si-based anode SEI: SiO2 nanoparticles …