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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 31, Pages 11928-11931Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja204865t
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- Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wurttemberg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- NSERC
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We report the preparation of monodisperse silicon nanocrystals (ncSi) by size-separation of polydisperse alkyl-capped ncSi using organic density gradient ultracentrifugation. The ncSi were synthesized by thermal processing of trichlorosilane-derived sol gel glasses followed by HF etching and surface passivation with alkyl chains and were subsequently fractionated by size using a self-generating density gradient of 40 wt % 2,4,6-tribromotoluene in chlorobenzene. The isolated monodisperse fractions were characterized by photoluminescence spectroscopy and high-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy and determined to have polydispersity index values between 1.04 and 1.06. The ability to isolate monodisperse ncSi will allow for the quantification of the size-dependent structural, optical, electrical, and biological properties of silicon, which will undoubtedly prove useful for tailoring property-specific optoelectronic and biomedical devices.
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