TY - JOUR
T1 - Photoresponsive azobenzene ligand as an efficient electron acceptor for luminous CdTe quantum dots
AU - Saeed, Shomaila
AU - Yin, Jun
AU - Khalid, Muhammad Adnan
AU - Channar, Pervaiz Ali
AU - Shabir, Ghulam
AU - Saeed, Aamer
AU - Arif Nadeem, Muhammad
AU - Soci, Cesare
AU - Iqbal, Azhar
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We highly acknowledge the financial support of Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan for the equipment/research grant (20-3071/NRPU/R&D/HEC/13). The authors are highly thankful to Dr. Zhang Zhicheng and Dr. Faisal Saleem, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University of Singapore for their help with HRTEM analysis.
PY - 2019/2/12
Y1 - 2019/2/12
N2 - Surface modified semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with a tunable photoluminescence (PL) are particularly desirable for many photo-responsive devices. In a step forward towards this goal using 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) the CdTe QDs of different sizes are synthesized. The MPA not only controls the size of the QDs but its dense shell around the surface also passivates the surface traps. Consequently, the CdTe QDs exhibit narrow emission with full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of ∼0.3 eV. These QDs are attached to (E)-4-((3-formyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) diazenyl) benzoic acid (FHDBA) to fabricate a photochrome-fluorophore assembly. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation induces trans-cis isomerization in FHDBA. Upon storing FHDBA in dark for ∼30 min, it completely reverts to trans-isomer. After photoisomerization the absorption band (n – π* transition) of cis-isomer of FHDBA overlaps with the emission band of CdTe QDs. Following UV excitation photoinduced electron transfer (ET) from conduction band (CB) of CdTe QDs to the LUMO of the cis-isomer of FHDBA quench the fluorescence of QDs by ∼16 times. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) may also quench the fluorescence but its contribution is minor. The photoinduced reversible trans-cis interconversion of FHDBA followed by ET in QDs-FHDBA assembly and the dual function of MPA as coupling strategy may open the avenues to design QDs luminescent photoswitchable probes for biomedical and energy storage applications.
AB - Surface modified semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with a tunable photoluminescence (PL) are particularly desirable for many photo-responsive devices. In a step forward towards this goal using 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) the CdTe QDs of different sizes are synthesized. The MPA not only controls the size of the QDs but its dense shell around the surface also passivates the surface traps. Consequently, the CdTe QDs exhibit narrow emission with full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of ∼0.3 eV. These QDs are attached to (E)-4-((3-formyl-4-hydroxyphenyl) diazenyl) benzoic acid (FHDBA) to fabricate a photochrome-fluorophore assembly. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation induces trans-cis isomerization in FHDBA. Upon storing FHDBA in dark for ∼30 min, it completely reverts to trans-isomer. After photoisomerization the absorption band (n – π* transition) of cis-isomer of FHDBA overlaps with the emission band of CdTe QDs. Following UV excitation photoinduced electron transfer (ET) from conduction band (CB) of CdTe QDs to the LUMO of the cis-isomer of FHDBA quench the fluorescence of QDs by ∼16 times. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) may also quench the fluorescence but its contribution is minor. The photoinduced reversible trans-cis interconversion of FHDBA followed by ET in QDs-FHDBA assembly and the dual function of MPA as coupling strategy may open the avenues to design QDs luminescent photoswitchable probes for biomedical and energy storage applications.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/653032
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1010603018316241
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061558797&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.02.007
DO - 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2019.02.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061558797
SN - 1010-6030
VL - 375
SP - 48
EP - 53
JO - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
JF - Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
ER -