Nanoporous photocathode and photoanode made by multilayer assembly of quantum dots

被引:34
作者
Hojeij, Mohamad [1 ]
Su, Bin [1 ]
Tan, Shuxin [1 ]
Meriguet, Guillaume [1 ]
Girault, Hubert H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Lab Electrochim Phys & Analyt, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
关键词
layer-by-layer; CdSe; CdSe@CdS; thin films; photocurrent; photoanode; photocathode;
D O I
10.1021/nn700295v
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
We perform in this paper a kinetic study of the photoelectrochemical responses of nanoporous thin photoactive films. The films were fabricated by by a layer-by-layer assembly of positively charged polyelectrolytes (poly-L-Lysine, pLys) and negatively charged semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) on a carboxylic acid terminated alkanethiol-modified gold electrode. Two types of NPs were used to build uniform films: cadmium selenide (CdSe) and cadmium selenide/cadmium sulfide core/shell (CdSe@CdS). Large photocathodic and photoanodic currents were recorded for CdSe and CdSe@CdS sensitized films, respectively. A theoretical model of the photocurrent responses was developed to analyze the kinetics of photoinduced processes and coupled reactions, showing that the multilayer films behave as homogeneous nanoporous semiconducting photoelectrodes.
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页码:984 / 992
页数:9
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