Strong reducing agents (<− 2.0 V vs saturated calomel electrode (SCE)) enable a wide array
of useful organic chemistry, but suffer from a variety of limitations. Stoichiometric metallic …

Plasmonic semiconductors with high free carrier concentration is a class of attractive
materials that exhibit metal-like localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) for light …

Quantum dots (QDs) are known for their size-dependent optical properties, narrow emission
bands, and high photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), which make them interesting …

Control over the doping density in copper sulfide nanocrystals is of great importance and
determines its use in optoelectronic applications such as NIR optical switches and …

The generation of reduced semiconductor nanocrystals is of interest for a variety of
optoelectronic applications. In comparison to other nanocrystalline materials, little work has …

II–VI colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs), such as CdSe NCs, are often plagued by
efficient nonradiative recombination processes that severely limit their use in energy …

Measuring and modulating charge-transfer processes at quantum dot interfaces are crucial
steps in developing quantum dots as photocatalysts. In this work, cyclic voltammetry under …

The efficiency of nanocrystal (NC)-based devices is often limited by the presence of surface
states that lead to localized energy levels in the bandgap. Yet, a complete understanding of …

Using cyclic voltammetry under illumination, we recently demonstrated that CdS quantum
dots (QDs) form charge donor states that live for at least several minutes after illumination …

Solution-phase spectroelectrochemistry was used to study electron injection into colloidal
CdSe quantum dots (QDs) with sizes ranging from 3.4 to 11.1 nm in tetrahydrofuran (THF) …