title: Chemiluminescence studies between aqueous phase synthesized mercaptosuccinic acid capped cadmium telluride quantum dots and luminol-H2O2.
abstract: Mercaptosuccinic acid capped Cadmium telluride quantum dots have been successfully synthesized via aqueous phase method. The products were well characterized by a number of analytical techniques, including FT-IR, XRD, HRTEM, and a corrected particle size analysis by the statistical treatment of several AFM measurements. Chemiluminescence experiments were performed to explore the resonance energy transfer between chemiluminescence donor (luminol-H2O2 system) and acceptor CdTe QDs. The combination of such donor and acceptor dramatically reduce the fluorescence while compared to pristine CdTe QDs without any exciting light source, which is due to the occurrence of chemiluminescence resonance energy transfer (CRET) processes.
authors.affiliation: Nanomaterials & Solar Energy Conversion Lab, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Trichy 620 015, India.
authors.forename: Kulandaivelu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaviyarasan
authors.affiliation: Nanomaterials & Solar Energy Conversion Lab, Department of Chemistry, National Institute of Technology, Trichy 620 015, India; Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Electronic address: sanand@nitt.edu.
authors.forename: Sambandam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anandan
authors.affiliation: Advanced Ceramics and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Concepcion, Concepcion 407-0409, Chile.
authors.forename: Ramalinga Viswanathan
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Mangalaraja
authors.affiliation: The Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21413, P.O. Box 80203, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Abdullah M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Asiri
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Electronic address: jjwu@fcu.edu.tw.
authors.forename: Jerry J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Wu
keywords: CdTe quantum dots; Chemiluminescence; Luminol; Resonance energy transfer