Metal-Tipped and Electrochemically Wired Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Modular Constructs for Directed Charge Transfer
In our 2017 proposal to the Solar Photochemistry division of DOE/BES/Office of Science we targeted the creation, characterization and integratation of new II-IV semiconductor heterostructured nanomaterials into ultra-thin film (tethered) nanocrystalline arrays on transparent metal oxide (TCO) supports. Materials were to include CdSe quantum dots (QDs), asymmetric CdSe@CdS tetrapods (TPs) and CdSe@CdS nanorods (NRs), into unique photoelectrochemical platforms. The ultimate goal was to tether these new nanomaterials to either electron- or hole-selective oxide interlayers that would afford vectoral photo-induced charge transfer and ultimately formation of molecular products such as H 2 . This was an ambitious set of goals but integrated well with our previous work in this general area.