Illuminating microemulsions: ionic liquid-CdS quantum dots hybrid materials as potential white light harvesting
Krishnaiah Damarla1, Pankaj Bharmoria, K Srinivasa Rao
1AcSIR, CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute, Bhavnagar-364002, India.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 19, 2016
Abstract:
Microemulsions (MEs) comprising of 2-hydroxyethylammonium formate, (HO-EAF), isooctane and dioctylsulfosuccinate proliniumisopropylester ([ProC3]AOT) have been constructed and used to prepare and stabilize CdS Quantum Dots (QDs) at room temperature. Such hybrid materials exhibited tunable light emission wherein the photoluminescence chromaticity could be precisely adjusted to pure white with a quantum efficiency (QE) of ∼43%, by adjusting the droplet size of MEs.
