Issue 18, 2023

Luminescent [CO2@Ag20(SAdm)10(CF3COO)10(DMA)2] nanocluster: synthetic strategy and its implication towards white light emission

Abstract

Owing to the quantized size and associated discrete energy levels, atomically precise silver nanoclusters (Ag NCs) hold great potential for designing functional luminescent materials. However, the thermally activated non-radiative transition of Ag(I)-based NCs has faded the opportunities. To acquire the structurally rigid architecture of cluster nodes for constraining such transitions, a new synthetic approach is unveiled here that utilizes a neutral template as a cluster-directing agent to assemble twenty Ag(I) atoms that ensure the maximum number of surface-protecting ligand attachment possibilities in a particular solvent medium. The solvent polarity triggers the precise structural design to circumvent the over-reliance of the templates, which results in the formation of [CO2@Ag20(SAdm)10(CF3COO)10(DMA)2] NC (where SAdm = 1-adamantanethiolate and DMA = N,N-dimethylacetamide) exhibiting an unprecedented room-temperature photoluminescence emission. The high quantum yield of the generated blue emission ensures its candidature as an ideal donor for artificial light-harvesting system design, and it is utilized with the two-step sequential energy transfer process, which finally results in the generation of ideal white light. For implementing perfect white light emission, the required chromophores in the green and red emission regions were chosen based on their effective spectral overlap with the donor components. Due to their favorable energy-level distribution, excited state energy transfers occurred from the NC to β-carotene at the initial step, then from the conjugate of the NC and β-carotene to another chromophore, Nile Blue, at the second step via a sequential Förster resonance energy transfer pathway.

Graphical abstract: Luminescent [CO2@Ag20(SAdm)10(CF3COO)10(DMA)2] nanocluster: synthetic strategy and its implication towards white light emission

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Mar 2023
Accepted
07 Apr 2023
First published
10 Apr 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 8377-8386

Luminescent [CO2@Ag20(SAdm)10(CF3COO)10(DMA)2] nanocluster: synthetic strategy and its implication towards white light emission

S. Biswas, A. K. Das, A. Sardar, S. S. Manna, P. K. Mondal, M. Polentarutti, B. Pathak and S. Mandal, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 8377 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR01107K

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