Chirality Control of Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot Assemblies
Abstract
Electron spin and molecular chirality are emerging as factors that can be used effectively to direct charge flow at the molecular scale. We discuss order of magnitude effects of molecular chirality on electron-transfer rates between quantum dots (QDs) in chiral QD assemblies. Indeed, both the circular polarization of the light that excites the electron donor and the imprinted chirality of the acceptor QDs affect the dot-to-dot electron-transfer kinetics. We define a polarization for the electron-transfer rate constant and show that it correlates with the strength of the acceptor QD circular dichroism (CD) spectrum. These results imply that the CD strength of the QD exciton transition(s) may be used as a predictor for the spin-dependent electron transfer, indicating that chiral imprinting of the dots may lie at the origin of this phenomenon.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, United States
- Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1604895
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46430; SC0010662
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 139; Journal Issue: 26; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7863
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Chiral induced Spin Selectivity; Quantum Dot; Spin Transfer; Electron Transfer
Citation Formats
Bloom, Brian P., Graff, Brittney M., Ghosh, Supriya, Beratan, David N., and Waldeck, David H. Chirality Control of Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot Assemblies. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b04639.
Bloom, Brian P., Graff, Brittney M., Ghosh, Supriya, Beratan, David N., & Waldeck, David H. Chirality Control of Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot Assemblies. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b04639
Bloom, Brian P., Graff, Brittney M., Ghosh, Supriya, Beratan, David N., and Waldeck, David H. Tue .
"Chirality Control of Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot Assemblies". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.7b04639. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1604895.
@article{osti_1604895,
title = {Chirality Control of Electron Transfer in Quantum Dot Assemblies},
author = {Bloom, Brian P. and Graff, Brittney M. and Ghosh, Supriya and Beratan, David N. and Waldeck, David H.},
abstractNote = {Electron spin and molecular chirality are emerging as factors that can be used effectively to direct charge flow at the molecular scale. We discuss order of magnitude effects of molecular chirality on electron-transfer rates between quantum dots (QDs) in chiral QD assemblies. Indeed, both the circular polarization of the light that excites the electron donor and the imprinted chirality of the acceptor QDs affect the dot-to-dot electron-transfer kinetics. We define a polarization for the electron-transfer rate constant and show that it correlates with the strength of the acceptor QD circular dichroism (CD) spectrum. These results imply that the CD strength of the QD exciton transition(s) may be used as a predictor for the spin-dependent electron transfer, indicating that chiral imprinting of the dots may lie at the origin of this phenomenon.},
doi = {10.1021/jacs.7b04639},
journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
number = 26,
volume = 139,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Tue Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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