Issue 39, 2017

An organometallic route to chiroptically active ZnO nanocrystals

Abstract

The unique optical properties of zinc oxide nanocrystals (ZnO NCs) are strongly dependent on both the properties and the composition of the inorganic core–organic ligand interface. Developing a novel organometallic self-supporting approach, we report on the synthesis and characterization of ZnO nanocrystals coated by chiral monoanionic aminoalcoholate ligands. The resulting ZnO NCs are both chiroptically active and possess size dependent optical properties. The size and in consequence the emission color of the ZnO NCs could be simply adjusted by the characteristic of the aminoalcohol used.

Graphical abstract: An organometallic route to chiroptically active ZnO nanocrystals

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Apr 2017
Accepted
17 Jul 2017
First published
19 Jul 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2017,9, 14782-14786

An organometallic route to chiroptically active ZnO nanocrystals

E. Chwojnowska, M. Wolska-Pietkiewicz, J. Grzonka and J. Lewiński, Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 14782 DOI: 10.1039/C7NR02843A

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