Quasi-ternary nanoparticle superlattices through nanoparticle design [electronic resource].

Published:: Berkeley, Calif. : Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2007.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
Physical Description:: 6 : digital, PDF file
Additional Creators:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Individual nanoscale building blocks exhibit a wide range of size-dependent properties, since their size can be tuned over known characteristic length scales of bulk materials. In the last several years, the possibility of combining different materials in the form of two and three component nanoparticles (NPs) has been extensively explored. Also multi-component materials can be obtained via self-assembly of NPs from their binary colloidal mixtures. These new nanocrystal solids may possess tunable collective properties that originate from interactions between size and composition controlled building blocks. Exchange coupling between neighboring NPs of magnetically soft and hard materials enhances the magnetic energy product of the nanocomposite material. Randomly mixed solids of small and large semiconducting CdSe NPs revealed enhancement of photoluminescence intensity of large semiconductor particles accompanied by quenching of photoluminescence of the small particles because of long-range resonant transfer of electronic excitations from the more electronically confined small particles to higher excited states of the large particles. Recently, it was demonstrated that binary semiconducting composite materials can show strongly enhanced electronic properties with about 100-fold higher conductance as compared to the sum of individual conductances of single-component films. Creation of highly periodic superlattices is expected not just provide the control of the homogeneity of the sample but also affect their properties. It was shown that silver nanocrystals organized into periodic cubic structures vibrated coherently [20] and demonstrated a change in electronic transport properties.

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E 1.99:lbnl-280e
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Published through SciTech Connect.
06/19/2007.
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Advanced Materials 19 23 FT
Alivisatos, A. Paul; Kortright, Jeffrey; Talapin, Dmitri V.; Aloni, Shaul; Shevchenko, Elena V.
Materials Sciences Division

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DE-AC02-05CH11231

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