One-Pot Gram-Scale Synthesis of Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Nanoparticles

Silicon nanoparticles (Si NPs) are highly attractive materials for typical quantum dots functions, such as in light-emitting and bioimaging applications, owing to silicon's intrinsic merits of minimal toxicity, low cost, high abundance, and easy and highly stable functionalization. Especially n...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society. - 1998. - 30(2018), 18 vom: 25. Sept., Seite 6503-6512
1. Verfasser: Pujari, Sidharam P (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Driss, Hafedh, Bannani, Fatma, van Lagen, Barend, Zuilhof, Han
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2018
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Silicon nanoparticles (Si NPs) are highly attractive materials for typical quantum dots functions, such as in light-emitting and bioimaging applications, owing to silicon's intrinsic merits of minimal toxicity, low cost, high abundance, and easy and highly stable functionalization. Especially nonoxidized Si NPs with a covalently bound coating serve well in these respects, given the minimization of surface defects upon hydrosilylation of H-terminated Si NPs. However, to date, methods to obtain such H-terminated Si NPs are still not easy. Herein, we report a new synthetic method to produce size-tunable robust, highly crystalline H-terminated Si NPs (4-9 nm) using microwave irradiation within 5 min at temperatures between 25 and 200 °C and their further covalent functionalization. The key step to obtain highly fluorescent (quantum yield of 7-16%) green-red Si NPs in one simple step is the reduction of triethoxysilane and (+)-sodium l-ascorbate, yielding routinely ∼1 g of H-Si NPs via a highly scalable route in 5-15 min. Subsequent functionalization via hydrosilylation yielded Si NPs with an emission quantum yield of 12-14%. This approach can be used to easily produce high-quality H-Si NPs in gram-scale quantities, which brings the application of functionalized Si NPs significantly closer
Beschreibung:Date Revised 28.12.2019
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0897-4756
DOI:10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b03113