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Self-assembly of semiconductor nanoparticles toward emergent behaviors on fluorescence

Xiao Li1,2, Zhili Lu3, Tie Wang1,2,4( )
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Living Biosystems, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Mold, Ministry of Education, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Life and Health Research Institute, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China
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Abstract

Due to the unique fluorescence characteristics, superstructures from self-assembly of semiconductor nanoparticles have become essential components of material and chemical science, and thus it has broad application potential in displays, single-photon source, sensing, biological tagging and emerging quantum technologies. Superstructure refers to an artificial functional architecture whose length scale is between the quantum scale and the macroscale. When solely treating this complicated stage fitted from less complicated pieces together (basic nanoparticles) and pile speculation on speculation, we must understand the fundamental questions, that is, what the hierarchy or specialization of function is at the stage. The uniqueness of this stage is not the collection of basic nanoparticles, but the behavior that emerges on fluorescence-basically a new type of behavior. Under the angle of view, this study reviews the advances in the fluorescence of individual semiconductor nanoparticles, inter-nanoparticles coupling and thus emergent fluorescence behaviors of assemblies. We also try to present the methodology for seeking emergent behaviors on fluorescence.

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nanoparticle assemblyoptical propertiesordered structurescouplingemergent

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Nano Research
Volume 14 Issue 5,
May 2021
Pages 1233-1243
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-3140-y
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Li X, Lu Z, Wang T. Self-assembly of semiconductor nanoparticles toward emergent behaviors on fluorescence. Nano Research, 2021, 14(5): 1233-1243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3140-y
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Received: 13 August 2020
Revised: 21 September 2020
Accepted: 23 September 2020
Published: 19 October 2020
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