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Title:COMPETITION IN THE FORMATION OF NANOSIZE MULTIPORPHYRIN COMPLEXES AND PORPHYRIN-QUANTUM DOT HETEROCOMPOSITES
DOI No:10.1142/9789812701947_0081
Source:PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND APPLICATION OF NANOSTRUCTURES (pp 367-370)
Author(s):E. I. ZENKEVICH
Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, F. Skaryna Avenue 70, 220072 Minsk, Belarus

A. M. SHULGA
Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, F. Skaryna Avenue 70, 220072 Minsk, Belarus

T. BLAUDECK
Institute of Physics, University of Technology Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany

F. CICHOS
Institute of Physics, University of Technology Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany

C. VON BORCZYSKOWSKI
Institute of Physics, University of Technology Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Str. 70, 09107 Chemnitz, Germany

Abstract:In solutions of variable polarity at 77-293 K, non-covalent binding interactions via the key-hole scheme “Zn–pyridyl” have been used for the formation of porphyrin triads and pentads as well as for the surface passivation of pyridyl–substituted tetrapyrroles on the core– shell semiconductor CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs). CdSe/ZnS QD emission quenching by attached porphyrins (due to energy and/or charge transfer) depends strongly on the number of anchoring groups, their arrangement in the porphyrin molecule as well as on QD size and number of ZnS monolayers. Simultaneous presence of porphyrin triads/pentads and QDs in a solution leads to an equilibrium competition between multiporphyrin complex formation (complexation constant KC ≈ 2·107 M−1 for 1:1 interaction) and appearance of CdSe/ZnS QDs passivated by pyridyl–substituted porphyrins (KC ~ 107 M−1 for one QD and number of porphyrin molecules).
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