Probing the dynamics of plasmon-excited hexanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles by picosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy
- Picosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is used to investigate the electronic and structural dynamics initiated by plasmon excitation of 1.8 nm diameter Au nanoparticles (NPs) functionalised with 1-hexanethiol. We show that 100 ps after photoexcitation the transient XAS spectrum is consistent with an 8% expansion of the Au–Au bond length and a large increase in disorder associated with melting of the NPs. Recovery of the ground state occurs with a time constant of ∼1.8 ns, arising from thermalisation with the environment. Simulations reveal that the transient spectrum exhibits no signature of charge separation at 100 ps and allows us to estimate an upper limit for the quantum yield (QY) of this process to be <0.1.
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| Author details: | Flavio ZamponiGND, Thomas J. Penfold, Maarten Nachtegaal, Andrea Lübcke, Jochen Rittmann, Chris J. Milne, Majed CherguiORCiDGND, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-74492 |
| Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe (paper 176) |
| Publication type: | Postprint |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2014/09/18 |
| Publication year: | 2014 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2015/03/26 |
| Tag: | water TiO2 nanoparticles; diimine-complexes; electron-transfer; excitation; nanoclusters; reactivity; supported gold; surface; visible-light |
| Number of pages: | 7 |
| First page: | 23157 |
| Last Page: | 23163 |
| Source: | Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics (2014) 16, S. 23157-23163. - DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03301a |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Chemie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 54 Chemie / 540 Chemie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| License (English): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 Unported |
| External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |
