Single Electron Transfer Behaviour of Nanosized Rhodium Particles

摘要

Ultra-small metallic and semi-conducting materials have great utility when their dimensions are of the order of a few nanometers since their fundamental properties can be controlled by both size and shape. However, most of these nano-materials with sizes less than 10 run, are not stable for practical applications and, hence, protecting them against aggregation using certain special type of polymers and organic molecules like long chain amines, thiols and carboxylic acid is crucial for many of their applications. Sometimes a single molecule thick layer (monolayer) of organic molecules is enough to impart sufficient long-term stability and such monolayer protected clusters (MPCs) of gold, silver, CdS, CdSe, etc., have found significance in the design of new molecular electronic devices.