Pandeya Pratima, Senanayake Ravithree D, Aikens Christine M
Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA.
J Chem Phys. 2021 May 14;154(18):184303. doi: 10.1063/5.0045590.
Evaluation of the electron-nuclear dynamics and relaxation mechanisms of gold and silver nanoclusters and their alloys is important for future photocatalytic, light harvesting, and photoluminescence applications of these systems. In this work, the effect of silver doping on the nonradiative excited state relaxation dynamics of the atomically precise thiolate-protected gold nanocluster [AuAg(SH)] (n = 1, 12, 25) is studied theoretically. Time-dependent density functional theory is used to study excited states lying in the energy range 0.0-2.5 eV. The fewest switches surface hopping method with decoherence correction was used to investigate the dynamics of these states. The HOMO-LUMO gap increases significantly upon doping of 12 silver atoms but decreases for the pure silver nanocluster. Doped clusters show a different response for ground state population increase lifetimes and excited state population decay times in comparison to the undoped system. The ground state recovery times of the S-S states in the first excited peak were found to be longer for [AuAg(SH)] than the corresponding recovery times of other studied nanoclusters, suggesting that this partially doped nanocluster is best for preserving electrons in an excited state. The decay time constants were in the range of 2.0-20 ps for the six lowest energy excited states. Among the higher excited states, S has the slowest decay time constant although it occurs more quickly than S decay. Overall, these clusters follow common decay time constant trends and relaxation mechanisms due to the similarities in their electronic structures.
评估金和银纳米团簇及其合金的电子-核动力学和弛豫机制对于这些体系未来的光催化、光捕获和光致发光应用至关重要。在这项工作中,从理论上研究了银掺杂对原子精确的硫醇盐保护的金纳米团簇[AuAg(SH)](n = 1, 12, 25)的非辐射激发态弛豫动力学的影响。采用含时密度泛函理论研究能量范围在0.0 - 2.5 eV的激发态。使用具有退相干校正的最少开关表面跳跃方法来研究这些态的动力学。掺杂12个银原子后,最高占据分子轨道-最低未占据分子轨道能隙显著增加,但对于纯银纳米团簇则减小。与未掺杂体系相比,掺杂团簇在基态布居增加寿命和激发态布居衰减时间方面表现出不同的响应。发现[AuAg(SH)]在第一激发峰中S - S态的基态恢复时间比其他研究的纳米团簇的相应恢复时间更长,这表明这种部分掺杂的纳米团簇最有利于将电子保持在激发态。六个最低能量激发态的衰减时间常数在2.0 - 20 ps范围内。在较高激发态中,S的衰减时间常数最慢,尽管它比S衰减发生得更快。总体而言,由于这些团簇电子结构的相似性,它们遵循共同的衰减时间常数趋势和弛豫机制。
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