JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 9.965
Longyan Wu,Xianhao Hua,Yu Li,Yuxin Zhang,Xiaogang Xue,Honggao Deng,Zhenggang Luo,Yuting Zhang
Due to high defect tolerance and multiphase allowance, AgInS 2 (AIS) quantum dots (QDs) provide chances for designing new type junctions via tailoring defects, size, or phase structure. These new type junctions potentially enhance photoelectric performance, such as photocatalytic H2 evolution (PHE). Here, ultra-small AIS QDs (∼1 nm) with well-defined exciton absorption were prepared aqueously via a reverse hot-injection procedure for the first time. A coalescence or fast aggregation-based growth was observed for coarsening at 95 or 135 ℃, respectively. XRD and TEM investigations revealed that the tetragonal-orthorhombic ( t -o) phase transition occurred via aggregation-based growth. The studies on phase transition kinetics resulted in fine-tailoring on AIS polymorphs, favoring t -o AIS junctions. UV–vis absorption spectra confirm the double absorption edge of the t -o heterophase junction with enhanced visible absorption. Steady and transient PL spectra suggest improvements in carriers’ separation/transfer in this t -o junction. As a result, the optimized t -o AIS shows superior photocatalytic H 2 evolution rates of 1022 μmol. g −1 . h −1 , 51.1 times that of t -AIS or 3.8 times that of o-AIS. This work is expected to provide new insight for designing ternary alloyed QDs with strongly coupled interfaces for effective H 2 generations.
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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2017
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IF 4.857
Lan Wang,Xiaojiao Kang,Daocheng Pan
Assisted with polyethylenimine, 4.0 L of water-soluble AgInS2 quantum dots (AIS QDs) were successfully synthesized in an electric pressure cooker. As-prepared QDs exhibit yellow emission with a photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield up to 32%. The QDs also show excellent water/buffer stability. The highly luminescent AIS QDs are used to explore their dual-functional behavior: detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2)/glucose and cell imaging. The amino-functionalized AIS QDs show high sensitivity and specificity for H2O2 and glucose with detection limits of 0.42 and 0.90 μM, respectively. A linear correlation was established between PL intensity and concentration of H2O2 in the ranges of 0.5–10 μM and 10–300 μM, while the linear ranges were 1–10 μM and 10–1000 μM for detection of glucose. The AIS QDs reveal negligible cytotoxicity on HeLa cells. Furthermore, the luminescence of AIS QDs gives the function of optical imaging.
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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2015
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IF 4.772
Xiaojiao Kang,Lijian Huang,Yanchun Yang,Daocheng Pan
Approximately 3 g of water-soluble AgInS2/ZnS core/shell quantum dots (AIS/ZnS QDs) with a maximum photoluminescence quantum yield of up to 39.1% was synthesized in an aqueous solution of gelatin and thioglycolic acid (TGA). The composition of the AIS QDs could be readily adjusted by controlling the molar ratio of the starting Ag/In precursors in the reaction solution, which leads to a tunable emission ranging from 535 to 607 nm. The as-prepared core/shell QDs exhibit excellent photostability and water/buffer stability. More importantly, these cadmium-free hydrophilic AIS/ZnS core/shell QDs are biocompatible and can be directly utilized in cancer cell imaging.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2016
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IF 7.145
Jiangluqi Song,Chao Ma,Wenzhe Zhang,Xiaodong Li,Wenting Zhang,Rongbo Wu,Xiangcan Cheng,Asad Ali,Mingya Yang,Lixin Zhu,Ruixiang Xia,Xiaoliang Xu
Attention on semiconductor nanocrystals have been largely focused because of their unique optical and electrical properties, which can be applied as light absorber and luminophore. However, the band gap and structure engineering of nanomaterials is not so easy because of their finite size. Here we demonstrate an approach for preparing ternary AgInS2 (AIS), quaternary AgZnInS (AZIS), AgInS2/ZnS and AgZnInS/ZnS nanocompounds based on cation exchange. First, pristine Ag2S quantum dots (QDs) with different sizes were synthesized in one-pot, followed by the partial cation exchange between In3+ and Ag+. Changing the initial ratio of In3+ to Ag+, reaction time and temperature can control the components of the obtained AIS QDs. Under the optimized conditions, AIS QDs were obtained for the first time with a cation disordered cubic phase and high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY) up to 32% in aqueous solution, demonstrating the great potential of cation exchange in the synthesis for nanocrystals with excellent optical properties. Sequentially, Zn2+ ions were incorporated in situ through a second exchange of Zn2+ to Ag+/In3+, leading to distinct results under different reaction temperature. Addition of Zn2+ precursor at room temperature produced AIS/ZnS core/shell NCs with successively enhancement of QY, while subsequent heating could obtain AZIS homogeneous alloy QDs with a successively blue-shift of PL emission. This allow us to tune the PL emission of the products from 483 to 675 nm and fabricate the chemically stable QDs core/ZnS shell structure. Based on the above results, a mechanism about the cation exchange for the ternary nanocrystals of different structures was proposed that the balance between cation exchange and diffusion is the key factor of controlling the band gap and structure of the final products. Furthermore, photostability and in vitro experiment demonstrated quite low cytotoxicity and remarkably promising applications in the field of clinical diagnosis.
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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
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2018
·Vol. 24
·期 51
·13676-13680
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IF 5.16
Huishan Shang,Qiumei Di,Muwei Ji,Bing Bai,Jiajia Liu,Wenxing Chen,Meng Xu,Hongpan Rong,Jia Liu,Jiatao Zhang
Graphical Tunable nanocrystals . Ternary I-III-VI 2 (AgInS 2 ) colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) with precise control of the composition (from In 3+ doping to ternary composition) and good NIR fluorescence performance (800–1000 nm) have been synthesized by facile low-temperature in situ conversion of colloidal Ag 2 S nanoparticles. In 3+ ions were inserted into the crystal lattice of Ag 2 S NCs at a relatively low temperature as dopant with ternary AgInS 2 NCs obtained at a higher temperature following a phase transition (see figure). Focusing on ternary I-III-VI 2 colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) synthesized with precise control of the composition (from doping to ternary composition) and NIR fluorescence performance, monodisperse binary In 3+ -doped Ag 2 S NCs and ternary AgInS 2 NCs have been achieved successfully by facile low-temperature in situ conversion of colloidal Ag 2 S nanoparticles. In 3+ ions were inserted into the crystal lattice of Ag 2 S NCs at a relatively low temperature as dopant and ternary AgInS 2 NCs were obtained at a higher temperature following a phase transition. These doped Ag 2 S and AgInS 2 NCs based on different indium precursor concentrations were explored with respect to the position and intensity of the near-infrared photoluminescent emission at different doping levels and crystal phase evolution.
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
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2024
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IF 4
Ting Chen,Youpeng Li,Chunxian Guo,Changqing Ye,Yuanhong Chen,Zhixiang Xie
Preparation of AgInS 2 quantum dots (AIS QDs) with high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and thermal stability remains an important challenge. In this paper, AIS QDs were successfully introduced into zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) by microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. Due to the effective isolation of the ZIF-8, the AIS QDs avoid the concentration quenching when they were assembled into white light emitting diodes (WLEDs) devices as color conversion materials. More importantly, the generation of ZnS layer between the interfaces of AIS QDs and ZIF-8 can efficiently improve the optical performance of AIS QDs, resulting in the fluorescence lifetime extended to 470.05 ns. Meanwhile, the PLQY of AIS/ZIF-8 composite reached up 34.30 % when microwave hydrothermal heating at 120 °C for 60 min with AgIn/Zn=1/3, which was higher than that of the pristine AIS QDs as 25.30 %. Finally, the WLED devices were fabricated by combining AIS/ZIF-8 composite fluorescent powder with (Ba, Sr)Si 2 O 2 N 2 :Eu 2+ phosphors and blue LED. At 20 mA, the AIS/ZIF-8 based WLED shows the luminous efficiency (LE) of 44.54 lm/W, correlated color temperature (CCT) of 4242 K and color rendering index (CRI) of 89.1. Moreover, the Commission International de L'Eclairage (CIE) was (0.36, 0.35), indicating the WLED emited warm white light. The present strategy aims at enhancing the optical performance of AIS QDs, which also may trigger the development of QDs-based WLED.
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Journal of Physics Communications
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2020
·Vol. 4
·期 4
·045016
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IF 0
Jiahu Wei,Feng Li,Chun Chang,Qin Zhang
Indium-rich environmentally-friendly quantum dots (QDs) have received widespread attention due to the absence of cadmium. In this paper, AgInS2 (AIS) QDs are synthesized by hot injection method. By adjusting the ratio of indium/silver (In/Ag = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), the AIS QDs exhibit a blue shift from 868 nm to 603 nm with the indium composition increases. Therein, the AIS QDs with the ratio of In/Ag = 4 show a highest photoluminescent (PL) quantum yields (QYs) up to 57%. AIS QDs are coated with ZnS shell to passivate the surface defects, and the PL QYs of obtained core/shell AIS/ZnS QDs is increased to 72%. By using these AIS/ZnS QDs as light emitters, light emitting diodes are assembled with a stacked multi-layer structure ITO/PEDOT:PSS/Poly-TPD/QDs/ZnO:Mg/Al. The resulted electroluminescent (EL) device exhibits a maximum external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 1.25% and an open circuit voltage of 4.6 V corresponding to a maximum brightness of 1120 cd m−2. Although the performances of the as fabricated AIS/ZnS-based device lag much behind than those of the Cd-based ones, they are expected to be enhanced with much more studies on the synthesis of the QDs and the optimization of device structure.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2022
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IF 6.371
Yuanhong Chen,Ting Chen,Zhe Qin,Zhixiang Xie,Mengbiao Liang,Youpeng Li,Jian Lin
Rapid synthesis of AgInS 2 quantum dots (AIS QDs) with high quantum yield and crystallinity in aqueous phase has been identified as a research priority in the realm of colloidal semiconductors. Herein, microwave assisted-hydrothermal method was used to react for 5 min at 120 °C to prepare AIS QDs with high luminescence properties. Meanwhile, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Bmim]BF 4 ) ionic liquid (IL) was employed as a wave absorber to enhance the photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and shorten the reaction time. The AIS QDs exhibited spectral tunability by adjusting the IL/AgIn molar ratio from 0 to 10, and the luminescence peak position could be tuned from 597 nm to 670 nm. The PLQY of AIS QDs reached 27.67% at the IL/AgIn molar ratio of 2.5, and the fluorescence lifetime upped to 360.4 ns. In addition, the ZnS shell was coated on the surface of the QDs with Zn/AgIn= 3 by reacting at 90 °C for 2 min, and the PLQY could reach to 35.66%, which further improved the emission performance of the AIS QDs. Finally, QDs and commercial (Ba, Sr)Si 2 O 2 N 2 :Eu 2+ phosphors were mixed to fabricate white light emitting diodes (WLEDs) devices. AIS@ZnS QDs-based WLED showed color rendering index (CRI) of 87.7 and correlated color temperature (CCT) of 5220 K. And its luminous efficiency (LE) reached 80.13 lm/W, which is 2.16 times higher than that of AIS QDs-based WLED (37.1 lm/W), indicating the good application prospect in WLEDs.
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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IF 15.1
Lin Zhong,Kejun Guo,Su Li,Juan Wang
High-throughput single-cell quantitative analysis is becoming increasingly important to elucidate cellular heterogeneity and further understand some related disease mechanisms. Various techniques including mass spectrometry, fluorescence detection, and electrochemiluminescence analysis have made significant progress in this area, but their dilemma is the destruction of cellular activity, the introduction of exogenetic probes and the resulting cellular metabolism perturbation, or the steric hindrance of the cells to the substrate. Here, we develop a non-destructive, probe-free, and hindrance-free photoelectrochemical (PEC) single-cell microsensor. First, a patterned PEC microelectrode with low-toxic and near-infrared AgInS 2 microdots is simply fabricated by using a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microstencil, exhibiting high photoelectric efficiency and low S 2- detection limit (1.0 nM). Then, a PDMS microwell array is prepared for single cells trapping, matching the size of the microelectrode and with high single-cell occupancy (>93%). Finally, a sealed sandwiching platform is formed by aligning and clamping the two arrays, each microdot contacts with a single cell in one microwell and reacts with the secreted H 2 S, preventing the neighboring microwell’s cross-contamination, cellular analyte’s dilution, and cell’s steric effect. The different light-addressable recorded photocurrent signals of all single cells directly reflect the 55.6% cell-to-cell differences. This report provides a useful and powerful tool to study single-cell heterogeneity.
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生物工程
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APPLIED CATALYSIS B-ENVIRONMENTAL
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2017
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IF 9.446
Fang Deng,Fei Zhong,Decai Lin,Lina Zhao,Yuejing Liu,Jinhong Huang,Xubiao Luo,Shenglian Luo,Dionysios D. Dionysiou
Although ternary chalcogenide compounds are effective photocatalysts for degrading organic pollutants under visible-light irradiation, their photocatalytic activity and stability are still low and far from practical application. In this study, two-dimensional AgInS 2 /SnIn 4 S 8 nanosheet heterojunctions were fabricated by one-step hydrothermal method. AgInS 2 /SnIn 4 S 8 nanosheet heterojunctions have strong visible-light absorption and narrow band gap of 2.27–2.35 eV, and exhibit excellent visible-light photocatalytic activity in the degradation of 2-nitrophenol (2NP) and tetracycline hydrochloride (TC·HCl) compared with pure AgInS 2 and pure SnIn 4 S 8 , which is attributed to the efficient separation of photogenerated electrons and holes. The practical application of AgInS 2 /SnIn 4 S 8 nanosheet heterojunctions was further studied. 20 mg AgInS 2 /SnIn 4 S 8 heterojunctions can effectively treat 100 mL real pharmaceutical industry wastewater in presence of H 2 O 2 with 65.98% mineralization efficiency, and the chemical oxygen demand (COD) of pharmaceutical industry wastewater decreases to 153 mg/L, which meets the discharge standards of industrial effluent. Moreover, AgInS 2 /SnIn 4 S 8 heterojunctions can maintain long-term activity without obvious inactivation after five consecutive catalytic cycles without using regeneration means.
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2025
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IF 6.3
Zecheng Cao,Xiaojiao Kang,Wei Lü,Weiliang Guan
In this study, we present a novel synthesis system for AgInS 2 /ZnS (AIS/ZnS) core/shell quantum dots (QDs) terminated with carboxymethyl chitosan (CMC) as a ligand, which has not been previously documented. By varying the Ag/In ratio, we achieved emission wavelengths ranging from 590 to 697 nm, with the maximum photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 33.1 %. The synthesized AIS/ZnS QDs powder was mixed with YAG phosphor and combined with a blue gallium nitride (GaN) chip to produce a warm white light-emitting diode (WLED), resulting in the color rendering index (CRI) increase from 74 to 82 and the correlated color temperature (CCT) decrease from 6486 K to 3873 K. Additionally, the AIS/ZnS QDs powder can be directly utilized with a blue GaN chip to create a near-infrared light-emitting diode (NIR-LED) capable of night vision. By adjusting the concentration of CMC in the AIS/ZnS QDs solution, the material can be directly used for writing and screen printing, or dried to obtain a highly transparent and luminescent flexible composite film. This research demonstrates the significant potential of CMC-ligated AIS/ZnS core/shell QDs in display technologies and flexible device applications.
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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
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2024
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IF 4.3
Xinyue Gu,Minghua Li,Ya Yan,Julian Miao
The convenience and high efficiency of recently developed I–III–VI group AgInS 2 (AIS) fluorescence sensors have garnered considerable attention. In this study, glutathione (GSH) was employed as a stabilizer to synthesize Mn doped AgInS 2 quantum dots (Mn-AIS QDs) via a one-step hydrothermal method at a lower temperature. The resultant samples displayed favorable photoluminescent characteristics and excellent water dispersibility. The photoluminescence of Mn-AIS QDs is quenched by Fe (III) via a photo-induced electron transfer mechanism (PET), and this quenching can be reversed by ascorbic acid (AA) as a result of the redox reaction between the Mn-AIS-Fe (III) complex and AA. Utilizing the on–off–on fluorescence principle, a fluorescence switch sensor based on Mn-AIS QDs was developed for the detection of Fe (III) and AA. The linear range for the detection of Fe (III) using the Mn-AIS QDs sensor was established to be 0.03–120 µM, with a detection limit (LOD) of 0.16 nM. For the detection of AA within the Mn-AIS-Fe (III) system, the linear range spanned from 0.05 to 180 µM, with a LOD of 0.031 µM. Both Mn-AIS and Mn-AIS-Fe (III) demonstrated robust anti-interference properties, facilitating the accurate detection of Fe (III) in tap water and AA in vitamin C tablets. This approach is notable for its simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and considerable potential for application in the creation of innovative biological and environmental sensors.
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