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Title: Epitaxial growth of highly symmetrical branched noble metal-semiconductor heterostructures with efficient plasmon-induced hot-electron transfer

Journal Article · · Nature Communications
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  1. Nanjing University (China); City University of Hong Kong (China)
  2. Emory University, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  3. City University of Hong Kong (China)
  4. Nanjing University (China)
  5. Sichuan University (China)
  6. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom (Hong Kong)
  7. Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  9. Nanjing University (China); University of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom)
  10. Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)

Epitaxial growth is one of the most commonly used strategies to precisely tailor heterostructures with well-defined compositions, morphologies, crystal phases, and interfaces for various applications. However, as epitaxial growth requires a small interfacial lattice mismatch between the components, it remains a challenge for the epitaxial synthesis of heterostructures constructed by materials with large lattice mismatch and/or different chemical bonding, especially the noble metal-semiconductor heterostructures. Here, we develop a noble metal-seeded epitaxial growth strategy to prepare highly symmetrical noble metal-semiconductor branched heterostructures with desired spatial configurations, i.e., twenty CdS (or CdSe) nanorods epitaxially grown on twenty exposed (111) facets of Ag icosahedral nanocrystal, albeit a large lattice mismatch (more than 40%). Importantly, a high quantum yield (QY) of plasmon-induced hot-electron transferred from Ag to CdS was observed in epitaxial Ag-CdS icosapods (18.1%). This work demonstrates that epitaxial growth can be achieved in heterostructures composed of materials with large lattice mismatches. The constructed epitaxial noble metal-semiconductor interfaces could be an ideal platform for investigating the role of interfaces in various physicochemical processes.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704; CHE-2004080
OSTI ID:
2005148
Report Number(s):
BNL-224834-2023-JAAM
Journal Information:
Nature Communications, Vol. 14, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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