IR Spectroscopy of Carboxylate-Passivated Semiconducting Nanocrystals: Simulation and Experiment
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| author | Sowa, Jakub K. Cadena, Danielle M. Mehmood, Arshad Levine, Benjamin G. Roberts, Sean T. Rossky, Peter J. |
| author_facet | Sowa, Jakub K. Cadena, Danielle M. Mehmood, Arshad Levine, Benjamin G. Roberts, Sean T. Rossky, Peter J. |
| contents | Surfaces of colloidal nanocrystals are frequently passivated with carboxylate ligands which exert significant effects on their optoelectronic properties and chemical stability. Experimentally, binding geometries of such ligands are typically investigated using vibrational spectroscopy, but the interpretation of the IR signal is usually not trivial. Here, using machine-learning (ML) algorithms trained on DFT data, we simulate an IR spectrum of a lead-rich PbS nanocrystal passivated with butyrate ligands. We obtain a good agreement with the experimental signal and demonstrate that the observed line shape stems from a very wide range of `tilted-bridge'-type geometries and does not indicate a coexistence of `bridging' and `chelating' binding modes as has been previously assumed. This work illustrates limitations of empirical spectrum assignment and demonstrates the effectiveness of ML-driven molecular dynamics simulations in reproducing IR spectra of nanoscopic systems. |
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| spellingShingle | IR Spectroscopy of Carboxylate-Passivated Semiconducting Nanocrystals: Simulation and Experiment Sowa, Jakub K. Cadena, Danielle M. Mehmood, Arshad Levine, Benjamin G. Roberts, Sean T. Rossky, Peter J. Chemical Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Surfaces of colloidal nanocrystals are frequently passivated with carboxylate ligands which exert significant effects on their optoelectronic properties and chemical stability. Experimentally, binding geometries of such ligands are typically investigated using vibrational spectroscopy, but the interpretation of the IR signal is usually not trivial. Here, using machine-learning (ML) algorithms trained on DFT data, we simulate an IR spectrum of a lead-rich PbS nanocrystal passivated with butyrate ligands. We obtain a good agreement with the experimental signal and demonstrate that the observed line shape stems from a very wide range of `tilted-bridge'-type geometries and does not indicate a coexistence of `bridging' and `chelating' binding modes as has been previously assumed. This work illustrates limitations of empirical spectrum assignment and demonstrates the effectiveness of ML-driven molecular dynamics simulations in reproducing IR spectra of nanoscopic systems. |
| title | IR Spectroscopy of Carboxylate-Passivated Semiconducting Nanocrystals: Simulation and Experiment |
| topic | Chemical Physics Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18779 |