A room‐temperature formation pathway for CdTeSe alloy magic‐size clusters

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202005643
Author	Search for: Zhang, Hai; Search for: Luan, Chaoran; Search for: Gao, Dong; Search for: Zhang, Meng; Search for: Rowell, Nelson¹; Search for: Willis, Maureen; Search for: Chen, Meng; Search for: Zeng, Jianrong; Search for: Fan, Hongsong; Search for: Huang, Wen; Search for: Chen, Xiaoqin; Search for: Yu, Kui
Name affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. Metrology Research Centre
Format	Text, Article
Journal title	Angewandte Chemie International Edition
ISSN	1433-7851 1521-3773
Article number	anie.202005643
Subject	cadmium telluride selenide (CdTeSe); crystal growth; magic-size clusters (MSCs); nucleation; semiconductor quantum dots (QDs)
Abstract	Little is known about the pathway of room-temperature formation of ternary CdTeSe magic-size clusters (MSCs) obtained via mixing binary CdTe and CdSe induction period samples containing binary precursor compounds (PCs) of MSCs, monomers (Ms), and fragments (Fs). Also, unestablished are dispersion effects that occur when as-mixed samples (without incubation) are placed in toluene (Tol) and octylamine (OTA) mixtures. The resulting ternary MSCs, exhibiting sharp optical absorption peaking at 399 nm, are labelled "CdTeSe MSC-399", and their particular PCs are "CdTeSe PC-399". It is shown that when the amount of the primary amine (OTA) was relatively small, single-ensemble MSC-399 evolved without binary CdTe or CdSe MSCs. When the OTA amount was relatively large, CdTe MSC-371 appeared initially and then disappeared, while single-ensemble MSC-399 developed more deliberately. The larger the OTA amount was, the more slowly these changes proceeded. The substitution reaction of CdTe PC + CdSe M/F ⇔ CdTeSe PC-399 + CdTe M/F is proposed to be rate-determining for the MSC-399 formation in a Tol and OTA mixture. The present study provides further understanding regarding the transformation pathway between MSCs.
Publication date	2020-06-17
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Language	English
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