Acylphosphine Route to Colloidal InP Quantum Dots
Andriy Stelmakh a b, Georgios Marnieros a b, Hansjörg Grützmaher a, Maksym Kovalenko a b
a Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir Prelog Weg 1, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
b Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
III-V Quantum Dots and Beyond: Pioneering Core-only and Core-Shell Structures for Future Applications - #III-VQD
Sevilla, Spain, 2025 March 3rd - 7th
Organizers: Ivan Infante and Liberato Manna
Oral, Andriy Stelmakh, presentation 221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.221
Publication date: 16th December 2024

InP-based quantum dots (QDs) represent the major commercial success of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). A combination of the robust, mostly covalent, crystal structure and the non-toxic nature of the constituent elements makes them a QD material of choice for cutting-edge display and LED technologies.[1,2] Despite successful commercial realization, InP NCs lack convenient synthesis chemistry, as illustrated by a resent quest to substitute commonly used pyrophoric and expensive tris(trimethylsilyl)phosphine precursor.[3-5] Herein, we propose solid, non-pyrophoric, and synthetically easily accessible acylphosphines as convenient phosphorus precursors for the synthesis of InP QDs. When combined with suitable anionic nucleophiles, such as arylthiolates, both triacylphosphines and indium complexes of bisacylphosphines act as efficient sources of P3- anion, as corroborated by the results of NMR spectroscopy and powder XRD studies. This type of reactivity is utilized to synthesize uniform colloidal InP QDs with well-defined and tunable (460 – 600 nm) excitonic features in their absorption spectra. The final NCs size is controlled by the nature of acyl substituents and by the use of either indium or zinc long-chain carboxylates as ligands. Such adjustable precursor reactivity offers an improved control over the colloidal synthesis of InP, potentially opening a pathway to diverse InP-based hetero-nanostructures and InP NCs of anisotropic shapes. Furthermore, the proposed chemistry should be readily extendable to the synthesis of other metal phosphide and metal arsenide NCs.

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