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Copyright 2004 by Marcel Dekker, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Figure 8 Energy level diagram for the photoluminescence quenching experiment ofWeller and co-workers showing the reduction potentials of the methylviologen andnitromethane electron acceptors with respect to the quantum confined conductionband(CB) and valence-band (VB) states of the nanocrystals and the inferred trapdistributions. Sample I and Sample II represent small and large CdS particles,respectively. The zero of the electrochemical energy scale with respect to the normalhydrogen electrode (NHE) corresponds to 4.5 eV below the vacuum level. (FromRef. 59.)carrier relaxation processes [61]. Although this prevented the isolation ofelectron and hole dynamics using quinones, both Guyot-Sionnest [62] andKlimov [63] have used pyridine as a hole-accepting surface ligand to facilitatestudies of electron relaxation in CdSe dots. The formation of the pyridinecation is complete roughly 450 fs after photoexcitation [63], whereas thelifetime of the charge-separated state can approach 1 ms [64].Although pyridine is only weakly bound to the nanocrystal surface, anovel diazaperylene that binds strongly to CdSe surfaces has recently beenreported [65]. Fluorescence quenching data suggest that both hole transferfrom photoexcited CdSe nanocrystals to the adsorbed perylene takes place, aswell as electron transfer from the photoexcited perylene to the CdSe nanocrystals.<strong>Copyright</strong> <strong>2004</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Marcel</strong> <strong>Dekker</strong>, <strong>Inc</strong>. <strong>All</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Reserved</strong>.

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