Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 13, Issue 18, Pages 4155-4162Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201200694
Keywords
energy transfer; hole transfer; nanoparticles; quantum dots; time-resolved spectroscopy
Funding
- DAE-SRC
- DST
- CSIR
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Considerable attention has been paid to hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites for designing new optical materials. Herein, we demonstrate the energy and hole transfer of hybrid hole-transporting alpha-sexithiophene (alpha-STH) nanoparticle-CdTe quantum dot (QD) nanocomposites using steady-state and time-resolved spectroscopy. Absorption and photoluminescence studies confirm the loss of planarity of the alpha-sexithiophene molecule due to the formation of polymer nanoparticles. Upon photoexcitation at 370 nm, a nonradiative energy transfer (73%) occurs from the hole-transporting alpha-STH nanoparticles to the CdTe nanoparticles with a rate of energy transfer of 6.13 x 10(9) s(-1). However, photoluminescence quenching of the CdTe QDs in the presence of the hole-transporting alpha-STH nanoparticles is observed at 490 nm excitation, which is due to both static-quenching and hole-transfer-based dynamic-quenching phenomena. The calculated hole-transporting rate is 7.13 x 10(7) s(-1) in the presence of 42 x 10(-8) M alpha-STH nanoparticles. Our findings suggest that the interest in alpha-sexithiophene (alpha-STH) nanoparticle-CdTe QD hybrid nanocomposites might grow in the coming years because of various potential applications, such as solar cells, optoelectronic devices, and so on.
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