{"id":108,"date":"2012-06-03T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:22:21","slug":"energy-transfer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/?page_id=108","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration in Energy Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--><\/style>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Our lab recently supported a novel experiment that studied the hole (<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">h+<\/i>) transport between CdSe\/ZnS quantum dots and conductive polymers.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnl.gov\/cfn\/news\/news.asp?a=3148&amp;t=today\">That experiment<\/a>, let by Dr. Mircea Cotlet at Brookhaven National Laboratory, used CdSe qdots with a particle emission wavelength with a tailored ZnS shell thicknesses fabricated by our graduate student Corey Hine.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>In this case, the synthesis conditions were tuned to have a red-emitting dot (635 nm), with ZnS shell thickness of ~1.2, 1.7, 2.2, and 4.2 nm.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>While synthesized under air-free conditions, the qdots surface chemistry was manipulated to be short, and hydrophilic.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>As recently reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/nn300525b\"><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">ACS Nano<\/i><\/a>, the work studied <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">h+<\/i> transfer at the ensemble and single molecule level, and discovered that a ZnS shell thickness of ~2-nm is optimum to balance <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">h+<\/i> transport kinetics, as well as qdot stability.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>This work is important is many future thin-film photovoltaics may incorporate qdots as the sensitizer, and conductive polymers as both the <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:&lt;br \/&gt;\nnormal\">e-<\/i> and <i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\">h+<\/i> transport properties.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>We are currently fabricating a number of other specifically crafted qdots for Cotlet and his co-workers for future studies.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lab recently supported a novel experiment that studied the hole (h+) transport between CdSe\/ZnS quantum dots and conductive polymers.&nbsp; That experiment, let by Dr. Mircea Cotlet at Brookhaven National Laboratory, used CdSe qdots with a particle emission wavelength with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/?page_id=108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nano.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}