Nonthermal plasma synthesis of nanocrystals: fundamental principles, materials, and applications

UR Kortshagen, RM Sankaran, RN Pereira… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nonthermal plasmas have emerged as a viable synthesis technique for nanocrystal
materials. Inherently solvent and ligand-free, nonthermal plasmas offer the ability to …

Bright silicon nanocrystals from a liquid precursor: Quasi-direct recombination with high quantum yield

TA Pringle, KI Hunter, A Brumberg, KJ Anderson… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) with bright bandgap photoluminescence (PL) are of current
interest for a range of potential applications, from solar windows to biomedical contrast …

Revisiting an ongoing debate: What role do surface groups play in silicon nanocrystal photoluminescence?

R Sinelnikov, M Dasog, J Beamish, A Meldrum… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The origin of photoluminescence (PL) in silicon nanocrystals (SiNCs) remains a subject of
considerable debate. Size-dependent PL that supports the quantum confinement model has …

Tunability limit of photoluminescence in colloidal silicon nanocrystals

X Wen, P Zhang, TA Smith, RJ Anthony… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Luminescent silicon nanocrystals (Si NCs) have attracted tremendous research
interest. Their size dependent photoluminescence (PL) shows great promise in various …

Nanoparticles as macromolecules

JB Miller, EK Hobbie - Journal of Polymer Science Part B …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A review of recent trends in the dispersion, purification, and assembly of colloidal
nanoparticles highlights a number of growing analogies with ideas borrowed from polymer …

Silicon-carbide nanocrystals from nonthermal plasma: surface chemistry and quantum confinement

RJ Petersen, SA Thomas, KJ Anderson… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Silicon-carbide (SiC) nanocrystals (NCs) of controlled 2–4 nm size are produced in low-
pressure nonthermal plasma from the simple alkylsilane precursor tetramethylsilane (TMS) …

Purifying colloidal nanoparticles through ultracentrifugation with implications for interfaces and materials

JB Miller, JM Harris, EK Hobbie - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
Liquid-phase processing and colloidal self-assembly will be critical to the successful
implementation of nanotechnology in the next generation of materials and devices. A key …

Abrupt size partitioning of multimodal photoluminescence relaxation in monodisperse silicon nanocrystals

SL Brown, JB Miller, RJ Anthony, UR Kortshagen… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Intrinsic constraints on efficient photoluminescence (PL) from smaller alkene-capped silicon
nanocrystals (SiNCs) put limits on potential applications, but the root cause of such effects …

Enhanced luminescent stability through particle interactions in silicon nanocrystal aggregates

JB Miller, N Dandu, KA Velizhanin, RJ Anthony… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Close-packed assemblies of ligand-passivated colloidal nanocrystals can exhibit enhanced
photoluminescent stability, but the origin of this effect is unclear. Here, we use experiment …

Radiative Relaxation in Luminescent Silicon Nanocrystal Thiol-Ene Composites

M Sefannaser, SA Thomas, KJ Anderson… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efficient photoluminescence (PL) from silicon nanocrystal (SiNC) composites has important
implications for emerging solar-collection technologies, yet a detailed understanding of the …