Highly photoluminescent and stable silicon nanocrystals functionalized via microwave-assisted hydrosilylation, 2018.

19 March 2018

Abstract

Herein, we report a microwave-assisted hydrosilylation (MWH) reaction for the surface passivation of silicon nanocrystals (Si-NCs) with linear alkenes. The MWH reaction requires only 20 minutes and allows us to produce Si-NCs with high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs), reaching 39% with an emission maximum of 860 nm.

Furthermore, we investigated the effect of ligand length on the photoluminescence properties of Si-NCs. We tested six alkenes with an even number of carbon atoms (from hexene-1 to hexadecene-1). The highest PLQY combined with a long stability (test period of 6 months) was observed when capping with the shortest ligand, hexene-1. The use of microwave heating turns the hydrosilylation step into a facile and sustainable process.

In order to provide insight into the emissive properties of Si-NCs surface oxidation and luminescence decay were investigated using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and time-resolved photoluminescence measurements.

Citation

Beri, D., Busko, D., Mazilkin, A., Howard, I.A., Richards, B.S. and Turshatov, A., 2018. Highly photoluminescent and stable silicon nanocrystals functionalized via microwave-assisted hydrosilylation. RSC Advances, 8(18), pp.9979-9984.

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