The Effect of Organic Ligand Binding on the Growth of CdSe Nanoparticles Probed by Ab Initio Calculations

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Abstract

First principles electronic structure simulations are used to study the atomistic detail of the interaction between organic surfactant molecules and the surfaces of CdSe semiconductor nanoparticles. These calculations provide insights into the relaxed atomic geometry of organics bound to semiconductor surfaces at the nanoscale as well as the electronic charge transfer between surface atoms and the organics. We calculate the binding energy of phosphine oxide, phosphonic and carboxylic acids, and amine ligands to a range of CdSe nanoparticle facets. The dominant binding interaction is between oxygen atoms in the ligands and cadmium atoms on the nanoparticle surfaces. The most strongly bound ligands are phosphonic acid molecules, which bind preferentially to the facets forming the sides of CdSe nanorods. The calculated relative binding strengths of ligands to different facets support the hypothesis that these binding energies control the relative growth rates of different facets, and therefore the resulting geometry of the nanoparticles.

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