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Long-Lived Charge-Separated States in Ligand-Stabilized Silver Clusters

Pelton, Matthew
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Tang, Yun  
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Bakr, Osman M.
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2012
Journal Of The American Chemical Society

Recently developed synthesis methods allow for the production of atomically monodisperse clusters of silver atoms stabilized in solution by aromatic thiol ligands, which exhibit intense absorption peaks throughout the visible and near-IR spectral regions. Here we investigated the time-dependent optical properties of these clusters. We observed two kinetic processes following ultrafast laser excitation of any of the absorption peaks: a rapid decay, with a time constant of 1 ps or less, and a slow decay, with a time constant that can be longer than 300 ns. Both time constants decrease as the polarity of the solvent increases, indicating that the two processes correspond to the formation and recombination, respectively, of a charge-separated state. The long lifetime of this state and the broad optical absorption spectrum mean that the ligand-stabilized silver clusters are promising materials for solar energy harvesting.

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DOI
10.1021/ja303682m
Web of Science ID

WOS:000306724500008

Author(s)
Pelton, Matthew
Tang, Yun  
Bakr, Osman M.
Stellacci, Francesco  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

American Chemical Society

Published in
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
Volume

134

Issue

29

Start page

11856

End page

11859

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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February 27, 2013
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