TY - JOUR
T1 - Lattice Strain and Ligand Effects on the Formation of Cu2-xS/I-III-VI2 Nanorod Heterostructures through Partial Cation Exchange
AU - Zhai, You
AU - Flanagan, Joseph C.
AU - Shim, Moonsub
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based on work supported in part by the U.S. NSF (Grant No. 1507170). Experiments were carried out in part in the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory Central Facilities at University of Illinois.
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© 2017 American Chemical Society.
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Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/7/25
Y1 - 2017/7/25
N2 - In the synthesis of anisotropic colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures, the interplay between many complicating factors such as interfacial chemistry, lattice strain, and coordinating ligands can make precise control over spatial distribution of composition extremely challenging. However, understanding how each complicating factor contributes to the growth mechanism can lead to otherwise difficult-to-achieve or unique structures and the means to tune their electronic/optical properties. Here, we report on the effects of lattice strain and the choice of ligands on the formation of Cu2-xS/I-III-VI2 colloidal nanorod heterostructures through partial cation exchange starting from Cu2-xS nanorods. Lattice strain can induce alternating Cu2-xS/CuGaS2 segments along a colloidal nanorod if CuGaS2 can nucleate easily from the sides of the nanorods. The choice in coordinating ligands can alter this preference to favor tip nucleation, in which case the resulting heterostructure has CuGaS2/Cu2-xS/CuGaS2 rod/rod/rod geometry. In the less strained CuInS2 case, superlattice-like alternating segmentation does not occur but the ligand induced difference in the preference of where nucleation initiates can still lead to distinct heterostructure morphologies. These results demonstrate how surface accessibility varied by the choice of ligands can be exploited synergistically with the driving force that creates interfaces to provide synthetic control over nanoscale heterostructure formation.
AB - In the synthesis of anisotropic colloidal nanocrystal heterostructures, the interplay between many complicating factors such as interfacial chemistry, lattice strain, and coordinating ligands can make precise control over spatial distribution of composition extremely challenging. However, understanding how each complicating factor contributes to the growth mechanism can lead to otherwise difficult-to-achieve or unique structures and the means to tune their electronic/optical properties. Here, we report on the effects of lattice strain and the choice of ligands on the formation of Cu2-xS/I-III-VI2 colloidal nanorod heterostructures through partial cation exchange starting from Cu2-xS nanorods. Lattice strain can induce alternating Cu2-xS/CuGaS2 segments along a colloidal nanorod if CuGaS2 can nucleate easily from the sides of the nanorods. The choice in coordinating ligands can alter this preference to favor tip nucleation, in which case the resulting heterostructure has CuGaS2/Cu2-xS/CuGaS2 rod/rod/rod geometry. In the less strained CuInS2 case, superlattice-like alternating segmentation does not occur but the ligand induced difference in the preference of where nucleation initiates can still lead to distinct heterostructure morphologies. These results demonstrate how surface accessibility varied by the choice of ligands can be exploited synergistically with the driving force that creates interfaces to provide synthetic control over nanoscale heterostructure formation.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02392
DO - 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b02392
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026314122
VL - 29
SP - 6161
EP - 6167
JO - Chemistry of Materials
JF - Chemistry of Materials
SN - 0897-4756
IS - 14
ER -