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3D Assembly of All‐Inorganic Colloidal Nanocrystals into Gels and Aerogels
Author(s) -
Sayevich Vladimir,
Cai Bin,
Benad Albrecht,
Haubold Danny,
Sonntag Luisa,
Gaponik Nikolai,
Lesnyak Vladimir,
Eychmüller Alexander
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201600094
Subject(s) - nanocrystal , colloid , materials science , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , colloidal particle , engineering
Abstract We report an efficient approach to assemble a variety of electrostatically stabilized all‐inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) by their linking with appropriate ions into multibranched gel networks. These all‐inorganic non‐ordered 3D assemblies benefit from strong interparticle coupling, which facilitates charge transport between the NCs with diverse morphologies, compositions, sizes, and functional capping ligands. Moreover, the resulting dry gels (aerogels) are highly porous monolithic structures, which preserve the quantum confinement of their building blocks. The inorganic semiconductor aerogel made of 4.5 nm CdSe colloidal NCs capped with I − ions and bridged with Cd 2+ ions had a large surface area of 146 m 2 g −1 .