Shell Thickness Dependence Research Articles

Efficient resonance energy transfer from dye to Au@SnO 2 core–shell nanoparticles

The present study reports the shell thickness dependence fluorescence resonance energy transfer between Rhodamine 6G dye and Au@SnO 2 core–shell nanoparticles. There is a pronounced effect on the PL quenching and shortening of the lifetime of the dye in presence of Au@SnO 2 core–shell nanoparticles. The calculated energy transfer efficiencies from dye to Au@SnO 2 are 64.4% and 78.3% for 1.5 nm and 2.5 nm thickness of shell, respectively. Considering the interactions of single acceptor and multiple donors, the calculated average distances ( r n) are 75.8 and 71.5 Å for 1.5 nm and 2.5 nm thick core–shell Au@SnO 2 nanoparticles, respectively.

Synthesis and Optical Properties of Three-Dimensional Porous Core−Shell Nanoarchitectures

Three-dimensional porous core-shell nanostructures consisting of gold skeletons and silver shells were fabricated by controllable electroless plating. Optical properties of the 3D nanocomposite with a heterogeneous interface exhibit a significant shell-thickness dependence. The porous core-shell structure with an optimized shell thickness of approximately 3-5 nm exhibits a considerable improvement in surface-enhanced Raman scattering. This study has important implications in the functionalization of nanoporous metals by surface modification.

Shell thickness dependence of exciton trapping in colloidal core/shell nanorods

We quantitatively investigated, by time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, the shell thickness dependence of exciton trapping and its effects on the PL quantum yield (QY) in colloidal CdSe/CdS/ZnS core/shell quantum rods. The defects passivation, due to a thin shell (0.6 monolayer), leads to a 2 times reduction of the trapping from both emitting and high-energy excited states, thus explaining the observed 4.3 times increase of the PL QY. Moreover, the QY decrease in the thick shell (1.3 monolayers) sample is fully explained in terms of increased trapping from the emitting states, which is ascribed to new defects caused by the strain relaxation at the core–shell interface.

Hybrid Gold/Silica/Nanocrystal-Quantum-Dot Superstructures: Synthesis and Analysis of Semiconductor−Metal Interactions

We report on the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of well-defined hybrid structures that consist of a gold core overcoated with a silica shell, followed by a dense monolayer of CdSe nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs). The dielectric silica spacer of a controlled thickness provides a simple means for tuning interactions between the QD emitters and the metal core. To illustrate this tunability, we demonstrate switching between QD emission quenching and enhancement by varying the silica shell thickness. Synthetic procedures developed here employ a final step of self-assembly of QDs onto the silica shell performed via simple titration of the QD solution with prefabricated core/shell Au/SiO2 particles. This approach allows us to perform an accurate quantitative analysis of the effect of the metal on the QD emission intensity. One important result of this analysis is that nonuniformity of nonradiative rates across the QD ensemble has a significant effect on both the magnitude and the shell-thickness dependence of the emission enhancement/quenching factors.