Surface Functionalization of Semiconductor and Oxide Nanocrystals with Small Inorganic Oxoanions (PO43鈥?/sup>, MoO42鈥?/sup>) and Polyoxometalate Ligands
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- 作者：Jing Huang ; Wenyong Liu ; Dmitriy S. Dolzhnikov ; Loredana Protesescu ; Maksym V. Kovalenko ; Bonil Koo ; Soma Chattopadhyay ; Elena V. Shenchenko ; Dmitri V. Talapin
- 刊名：ACS Nano
- 出版年：2014
- 出版时间：September 23, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：8
- 期：9
- 页码：9388-9402
- 全文大小：957K
- ISSN：1936-086X
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In this work, we study the functionalization of the nanocrystal (NC) surface with inorganic oxo ligands, which bring a new set of functionalities to all-inorganic colloidal nanomaterials. We show that simple inorganic oxoanions, such as PO43鈥?/sup> and MoO42鈥?/sup>, exhibit strong binding affinity to the surface of various II鈥揤I and III鈥揤 semiconductor and metal oxide NCs. 味-Potential titration offered a useful tool to differentiate the binding affinities of inorganic ligands toward different NCs. Direct comparison of the binding affinity of oxo and chalcogenidometallate ligands revealed that the former ligands form a stronger bond with oxide NCs (e.g., Fe2O3, ZnO, and TiO2), while the latter prefer binding to metal chalcogenide NCs (e.g., CdSe). The binding between NCs and oxo ligands strengthens when moving from small oxoanions to polyoxometallates (POMs). We also show that small oxo ligands and POMs make it possible to tailor NC properties. For example, we observed improved stability upon Li+-ion intercalation into the films of Fe2O3 hollow NCs when capped with MoO42鈥?/sup> ligands. We also observed lower overpotential and enhanced exchange current density for water oxidation using Fe2O3 NCs capped with [P2Mo18O62]6鈥?/sup> ligands and even more so for [{Ru4O4(OH)2(H2O)4}(纬-SiW10O36)2] with POM as the capping ligand.