The effect of surface-capping oleic acid on the optical properties of lanthanide-doped nanocrystals.

Nanoscale
Renfu LiQiang Ju

Abstract

The rapid development of nanotechnology has placed a higher demand on the synthesis of nanomaterials. Benefiting from its capability to keep nanoparticles away from aggregation, oleic acid (OA) has been routinely utilized as a capping agent in the synthesis of monodisperse nanocrystals. To satisfy downstream biological applications, hydrophobic OA capping on the surface should be removed or coated, but scarce attention has been paid to its influence on the optical properties of nanocrystals. In this work, the effect of surface-capping OA has been systematically explored on the optical properties of lanthanide-doped upconversion and downshifting nanocrystals, respectively. The emission intensity and lifetime of emissive lanthanides have been compared between OA-capped and ligand-free nanocrystals either in solid state or in colloidal solution. In solid state, surface-capping OA can significantly influence both emission intensity and radiative transition possibility of emissive lanthanides. However, in colloidal solution, a distinct variation between OA-capped and ligand-free nanocrystals is observed. Besides, the effect of OA on the luminescence dynamics of lanthanides with different energy gaps (emitting level to the next-lower...Continue Reading

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dynamic light scattering
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