Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 11, Pages 4734-4742Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c01354
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-1644779]
- State of Florida
- Florida State University startup funds
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Green-to-blue photon upconversion bears great potential in photocatalytic applications. Current hybrid inorganic-organic upconversion schemes commonly utilize spherical CdSe nanocrystals, but size polydispersity could influence efficiencies in future solid-state applications. In this contribution, we introduce anisotropic CdSe nanoplatelets as triplet sensitizers. Here, quantum confinement occurs in only one direction, erasing effects stemming from size polydispersity. Additionally, their high quantum yields, giant oscillator strengths, and large absorption cross sections could prove useful in a triplet sensitization scheme. We investigate the triplet energy transfer process from the CdSe nanoplatelets to the surface-bound triplet acceptor 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid and the resulting upconversion in 9,10-diphenylanthracene. We further investigate the influence of nanoplatelet stacking and singlet back-transfer on the observed upconversion efficiency. We obtain an upconversion quantum yield of 5.4% at a power density of 11 W/cm(2) using the annihilator 9,10-diphenylanthracene and a low efficiency threshold I-th of 237 mW/cm(2).
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