Semiconductor Quantum Dots: An Emerging Candidate for CO2 Photoreduction

HL Wu, XB Li, CH Tung, LZ Wu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
As one of the most critical approaches to resolve the energy crisis and environmental
concerns, carbon dioxide (CO2) photoreduction into value‐added chemicals and solar fuels …

Nanoscale strategies for light harvesting

S Kundu, A Patra - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

Aqueous based semiconductor nanocrystals

L Jing, SV Kershaw, Y Li, X Huang, Y Li… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review summarizes traditional and recent nonconventional, bioinspired, methods for the
aqueous synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The basic chemistry …

Ligand exchange and the stoichiometry of metal chalcogenide nanocrystals: spectroscopic observation of facile metal-carboxylate displacement and binding

NC Anderson, MP Hendricks, JJ Choi… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate that metal carboxylate complexes (L–M (O2CR) 2, R= oleyl, tetradecyl, M=
Cd, Pb) are readily displaced from carboxylate-terminated ME nanocrystals (ME= CdSe …

Electronic processes within quantum dot-molecule complexes

RD Harris, S Bettis Homan, M Kodaimati, C He… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The subject of this review is the colloidal quantum dot (QD) and specifically the interaction of
the QD with proximate molecules. It covers various functions of these molecules, including (i) …

Down conversion materials for solid‐state lighting

J McKittrick, LE Shea‐Rohwer - Journal of the American …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The wavelength down conversion approach to solid‐state lighting (SSL) uses down
conversion materials to produce visible light when excited by near‐UV or blue emission from …

Synthetic control of exciton behavior in colloidal quantum dots

C Pu, H Qin, Y Gao, J Zhou, P Wang… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Colloidal quantum dots are promising optical and optoelectronic materials for various
applications, whose performance is dominated by their excited-state properties. This article …

Photogenerated excitons in plain core CdSe nanocrystals with unity radiative decay in single channel: the effects of surface and ligands

Y Gao, X Peng - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
A systematic and reproducible method was developed to study the decay dynamics of an
exciton, a photogenerated electron–hole pair, in semiconductor nanocrystals in solution …

The role of ligands in determining the exciton relaxation dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

MD Peterson, LC Cass, RD Harris… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the mechanisms through which molecules adsorbed to the surfaces of
semiconductor nanocrystals, quantum dots (QDs), influence the pathways for and dynamics …

Light-driven and phonon-assisted dynamics in organic and semiconductor nanostructures

S Kilina, D Kilin, S Tretiak - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Rapid advances in chemical synthesis and fabrication techniques have led to a boost in
manufacturing and design of novel nanostructured materials that exhibit unique and often …