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Ostovar B, Lee SA, Mehmood A, Farrell K, Searles EK, Bourgeois B, Chiang WY, Misiura A, Gross N, Al-Zubeidi A, Dionne JA, Landes CF, Zanni M, Levine BG, Link S. The role of the plasmon in interfacial charge transfer. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadp3353. [PMID: 38968358 PMCID: PMC11225779 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp3353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 07/07/2024]
Abstract
The lack of a detailed mechanistic understanding for plasmon-mediated charge transfer at metal-semiconductor interfaces severely limits the design of efficient photovoltaic and photocatalytic devices. A major remaining question is the relative contribution from indirect transfer of hot electrons generated by plasmon decay in the metal to the semiconductor compared to direct metal-to-semiconductor interfacial charge transfer. Here, we demonstrate an overall electron transfer efficiency of 44 ± 3% from gold nanorods to titanium oxide shells when excited on resonance. We prove that half of it originates from direct interfacial charge transfer mediated specifically by exciting the plasmon. We are able to distinguish between direct and indirect pathways through multimodal frequency-resolved approach measuring the homogeneous plasmon linewidth by single-particle scattering spectroscopy and time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy with variable pump wavelengths. Our results signify that the direct plasmon-induced charge transfer pathway is a promising way to improve hot carrier extraction efficiency by circumventing metal intrinsic decay that results mainly in nonspecific heating.
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- Behnaz Ostovar
- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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- Center for Adopting Flaws as Features, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Hou T, Li X, Zhang X, Cai R, Wang YC, Chen A, Gu H, Su M, Li S, Li Q, Zhang L, Haigh SJ, Zhang J. Atomic Au 3Cu Palisade Interlayer in Core@Shell Nanostructures for Efficient Kirkendall Effect Mediation. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:2719-2726. [PMID: 38377427 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2024]
Abstract
Plasmonic Cu@semiconductor heteronanocrystals (HNCs) have many favorable properties, but the synthesis of solid structures is often hindered by the nanoscale Kirkendall effect. Herein, we present the use of an atomically thin Au3Cu palisade interlayer to reduce lattice mismatch and mediate the Kirkendall effect, enabling the successive topological synthesis of Cu@Au3Cu@Ag, Cu@Au3Cu@Ag2S, and further transformed solid Cu@Au3Cu@CdS core-shell HNCs via cation exchange. The atomically thin and intact Au3Cu palisade interlayer effectively modulates the diffusion kinetics of Cu atoms as demonstrated by experimental and theoretical investigations and simultaneously alleviates the lattice mismatch between Cu and Ag as well as Cu and CdS. The Cu@Au3Cu@CdS HNCs feature exceptional crystallinity and atomically organized heterointerfaces between the plasmonic metal and the semiconductor. This results in the efficient plasmon-induced injection of hot electrons from Cu@Au3Cu into the CdS shell, enabling the Cu@Au3Cu@CdS HNCs to achieve high activity and selectivity for the photocatalytic reduction of CO2 to CO.
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- Tailei Hou
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K
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- Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction-Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecule Science and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, MOE Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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Melendez LV, Nguyen CK, Wilms M, Syed N, Daeneke T, Duffy NW, Fery A, Della Gaspera E, Gómez DE. Probing the Interaction between Individual Metal Nanocrystals and Two-Dimensional Metal Oxides via Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy. NANO LETTERS 2024; 24:1944-1950. [PMID: 38305174 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04225] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2024]
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Metal nanoparticles can photosensitize two-dimensional metal oxides, facilitating their electrical connection to devices and enhancing their abilities in catalysis and sensing. In this study, we investigated how individual silver nanoparticles interact with two-dimensional tin oxide and antimony-doped indium oxide using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS). The measurement of the spectral line width of the longitudinal plasmon resonance of the nanoparticles in absence and presence of 2D materials allowed us to quantify the contribution of chemical interface damping to the line width. Our analysis reveals that a stronger interaction (damping) occurs with 2D antimony-doped indium oxide due to its highly homogeneous surface. The results of this study offer new insight into the interaction between metal nanoparticles and 2D materials.
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- Lesly V Melendez
- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
- School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
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- School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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- CSIRO Energy, Clayton South, Victoria 3169, Australia
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- Physical Chemistry of Polymeric Materials, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstr. 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany
- Institute for Physical Chemistry and Polymer Physics, Leibniz Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- School of Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia
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Guan T, Chen W, Tang H, Li D, Wang X, Weindl CL, Wang Y, Liang Z, Liang S, Xiao T, Tu S, Roth SV, Jiang L, Müller-Buschbaum P. Decoding the Self-Assembly Plasmonic Interface Structure in a PbS Colloidal Quantum Dot Solid for a Photodetector. ACS NANO 2023; 17:23010-23019. [PMID: 37948332 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c08526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
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Hybrid plasmonic nanostructures have gained enormous attention in a variety of optoelectronic devices due to their surface plasmon resonance properties. Self-assembled hybrid metal/quantum dot (QD) architectures offer a means of coupling the properties of plasmonics and QDs to photodetectors, thereby modifying their functionality. The arrangement and localization of hybrid nanostructures have an impact on exciton trapping and light harvesting. Here, we present a hybrid structure consisting of self-assembled gold nanospheres (Au NSs) embedded in a solid matrix of PbS QDs for mapping the interface structures and the motion of charge carriers. Grazing-incidence small-angle X-ray scattering is utilized to analyze the localization and spacing of the Au NSs within the hybrid structure. Furthermore, by correlating the morphology of the Au NSs in the hybrid structure with the corresponding differences observed in the performance of photodetectors, we are able to determine the impact of interface charge carrier dynamics in the coupling structure. From the perspective of architecture, our study provides insights into the performance improvement of optoelectronic devices.
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- Tianfu Guan
- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- College of Integrated Circuit and Optoelectronic Chips, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Ultraintense Laser and Advanced Material Technology, Center for Advanced Material Diagnostic Technology, and College of Engineering Physics, Shenzhen Technology University, Shenzhen 518118, People's Republic of China
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Teknikringen 56-58, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, People's Republic of China
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- Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Chair for Functional Materials, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Heinz Maier-Leibniz Zentrum (MLZ), Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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