Quenched or alive quantum dots: the leading roles of ligand adsorption and photoinduced protonation

[en] It appears that the emission of QDs is quenched below a critical pH value of 6.87, and that light excitation power strengthens this quenching. We thus demonstrate the existence of an additional photochemical process and developed a mathematical modeling accounting for all our experimental results.

Disciplines :

Physics

Author, co-author :

Hottechamps, Julie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Biophotonique

Noblet, Thomas ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Biophotonique

Erard, Marie; Université Paris-Saclay > Chimie Physique > UMR 8000

Dreesen, Laurent ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Biophotonique

Language :

English

Title :

Quenched or alive quantum dots: the leading roles of ligand adsorption and photoinduced protonation

Publication date :

2021

Journal title :

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

ISSN :

0021-9797

eISSN :

1095-7103

Publisher :

Elsevier, Atlanta, United States - Florida

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Name of the research project :

QD3Drops

Funders :

Service public de Wallonie. Secrétariat général - SPW-SG

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