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"Green" Aqueous Synthesis and Advanced Spectral Characterization of Size-Selected Cu
Oleksandr Stroyuk1,2, Alexandra Raevskaya3,4, Oleksandr Selyshchev5
1Physical Chemistry, TU Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany. alstroyuk@ukr.net.
Scientific Reports
|September 14, 2018
Abstract:
Structure, composition, and optical properties of colloidal mercaptoacetate-stabilized Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanocrystal inks produced by a "green" method directly in aqueous solutions were characterized. A size-selective precipitation procedure using 2-propanol as a non-solvent allows separating a series of fractions of CZTS nanocrystals with an average size (bandgap) varying from 3 nm (1.72 eV) to 2 nm (2.04 eV). The size-selected CZTS nanocrystals revealed also phonon confinement, with the main phonon mode frequency varying by about 4 cm-1 between 2 nm and 3 nm NCs.