《Luminescent properties dependence of watersoluble CdTe quantum dots on stabilizing agents and reaction time》.pdfVIP

J. Cent. South Univ. Technol. (2010) 17: 1148−1154 DOI: 10.1007/s11771−010−0611−4 Luminescent properties dependence of water-soluble CdTe quantum dots on stabilizing agents and reaction time 1, 2 1 1 1, 2 LI Zheng(李峥) , WANG Yong-xian(汪勇先) , ZHANG Guo-xin(张国欣) , HAN Yan-jiang(韩彦江) 1. Radiopharmaceutical Centre, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China; 2. Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China © Central South University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Abstract: The influence of stabilizing agents and reaction time on the luminescent properties of water-soluble CdTe quantum dots (QDs) was discussed. The thioglycolic acid (TGA)-CdTe ODs were characterized by TEM, XRD and FTIR. It is found that larger-size QDs can be synthesized more easily when L-cysteine (Cys) or golutathione (GSH) is chosen as stabilizing agent and TGA is proper to prepare highly luminescent QDs because of the effect between Cd2+ and sulfhydryl group. Furthermore, the absorption wavelength, full width at half maximum (FWHM), stokes shift, photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield and PL stability of TGA-CdTe are strongly dependent on reaction time, in which the absorption wavelength changes against reaction time with an exponential function. The TGA-CdTe QDs prepared at 2 h possess more excellent luminescent properties. Key words: CdTe quantum dots; stabilizing agent; reaction time; luminescent property