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Morphology-Preserving Sensitization of ZnO Nanorod Surfaces via Click-Chemistry Chuan He, Baxter Abraham, Hao Fan, Ryan Harmer, Zhengxin Li, Elena Galoppini, Lars Gundlach, and Andrew Teplyakov J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03388 • Publication Date (Web): 24 Jan 2018 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 28, 2018

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Morphology-Preserving Sensitization of ZnO Nanorod Surfaces via Click-Chemistry Chuan He,† Baxter Abraham,† Hao Fan,‡ Ryan Harmer, ‡ Zhengxin Li,† Elena Galoppini,‡,* Lars Gundlach,†,#,* and Andrew Teplyakov†,* †

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

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Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102

ABSTRACT: Films of ZnO nanorods grown by chemical vapor deposition were functionalized with a chromophore in a stepwise process that preserves the surfaces morphology. In the first step the ZnO nanorods were functionalized by exposure to prop-2-ynoic acid (propiolic acid) in vacuum, which did bind through the COOH group leading to a ZnO surface functionalized with ethyne moieties (ethyne/ZnO). In the second step, 9-(4-azidophenyl)-2,5-di-tert-butylperylene (DTBPe-Ph-N3) was reacted with the ethyne/ZnO surface via copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne click reaction (CuAAC) in solution to form the DTBPe-functionalized surface (DTBPe/ZnO). The ZnO morphology was preserved after each step, as demonstrated by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).

Each step was probed by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), and

Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (TA) of the resulting DTBPe/ZnO surface shows interfacial electron transfer following visible light absorption. As expected, attempts to bind the reference compound 1-(4(8,11-di-tert-butylperylen-3-yl)-phenyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazole4-carboxylic acid (DTBPe-Ph-Tz-COOH) directly from solution lead to etched surfaces (SEM) and undefined binding modes (TA). ______________________________ 1 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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* Corresponding authors: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Nanostructured wide band gap metal oxides (ZnO TiO2 SnO2) are important components for applications involving environment and solar energy conversion. Covalent surface functionalization of metal oxides films with chromophoric organic and inorganic molecules (sensitization) extends the absorption of metal oxides into the visible spectral range, and allows sunlight-promoted processes. These are used for photo-catalysis,1,2 photovoltaics,3 and photodegradation of chemicals for environmental remediation.4 In particular, their use as components for dye-sensitized solar-cells (DSSCs) and dye-sensitized photoelectrosynthesis cells (DSPECs) remains a vibrant field of research and technological progress.5 Finally, chromophore/metal oxide interfaces are important in fundamental studies of interfacial charge transfer processes.6 Surface sensitization with covalently attached dye-molecules requires a large surface area per volume that in most cases is provided by employing mesoporous, µm-thick films made of nanostructured metal oxides. These can have varying morphology, most commonly nanocolloids, nanotubes, and nanowires.7,8 TiO2 nanocolloidal films are by far the most frequently used metaloxide substrates in fundamental research and practical applications. An important reason for the dominance of TiO2 is the inherent chemical stability of its surface, which is inert against strong acids at room temperature and requires extreme conditions for etching. Consequently, covalent modification from solutions by sensitizer molecules via carboxylic (COOH) or phosphonic (P(O)(OH)2) anchor groups is a standard practice. ZnO has a similar band gap compared to TiO2 (3.2 eV), and has attracted considerable attention as a viable alternative to TiO2. ZnO can easily be grown as highly crystalline (wurzite) and vertically aligned nanowires, and in a variety of other ordered morphologies.9 Also, ZnO nanorod or nanowire electrodes exhibited higher electron mobility, a property that is attractive 2 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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for applications in solar energy conversion.10 However, ZnO is etched by the acidic anchor groups used to bind the sensitizers,11–14 resulting in the formation of zincate salts that may deposit onto the surface. The binding may be further complicated when multiple surface anchors are present on the same sensitizer. Strategies aiming to preserve the integrity of ZnO nanostructure surface include the development of ZnO materials alloyed with MgO (such as Zn1xMgxO).

However, alloying requires metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD)

methods, and affects the band gap properties.15 Additional stabilization strategies include preparation of different reconstructions of clean ZnO surfaces, which can only be achieved in vacuum,16 atomic layer deposition of thin layers of chemically inert aluminum oxide,17 and chemical stabilization of the surface with reagents such as alkylammonium alkylcarbamates, which may also influence surface structure and electronic properties.18 The liquid phase chemical modification of ZnO nanorods and nanostructures has been demonstrated either by one-step or two step procedures. The one-step method involved exposure of the surface to solutions of the acidic dye molecule. In two-step procedures, the surface is initially functionalized with a molecule carrying an anchor group for binding and a second group for further reactivity, followed by a second modification step that is often based on nucleophilic substitution or, preferably, “click” chemistry.14,19 The use of click chemistry20–25 as the second step in ZnO modification is an important development as it is a versatile and highly successful approach for surface functionalization. However, the fact that the first step is conducted in solution can lead to ZnO surface etching even in the most successful ZnO surface modification schemes.14 Building on a recent finding by the Teplyakov group,26 here we demonstrate a two-step process where in the first step the clean ZnO surface is functionalized and passivated by 3 ACS Paragon Plus Environment


chemisorption of propiolic acid from the gas phase. This step results in a well-defined attachment of the COOH anchor group, with only a single type of surface carboxylate formed, as supported by the IR spectroscopy, XPS, and solid-state NMR studies.26 This leaves the ethyne unit ready to react via click chemistry, allowing subsequent attachment of sensitizers. More importantly, the gas phase functionalization in the first step preserves the surface morphology and protects the surface of the nanostructured ZnO material, so that the click reaction20–25 in the second step can be performed in either gas phase (by uncatalyzed thermal process) or in liquid phase (by CuAAC).

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Figure 1. Schematic representation of the reaction pathways designed to functionalize ZnO nanostructures. If the first step is performed in liquid phase, additional complication may be caused by molecularly adsorbed carboxylic acids.26 We applied this approach to modify ZnO nanorods with propiolic acid in the gas-phase followed by the copper-catalyzed click reaction (CuAAC) of the alkyne functionality with a specially synthesized azido-substituted perylene dye, 9-(4-azidophenyl)-2,5-di-tert-butylperylene (DTBPe-Ph-N3). A comparison was made by exposure to a solution (1 mM solution in THF) of the expected surface click product, 1-(4-(8,11-di-tert-butylperylen-3-yl)-phenyl)-1H-1,2,3triazole-4-carboxylic acid (DTBPe-Ph-Tz-COOH), which was synthesized independently. Figure 1 shows a scheme of the comparative study presented here. The first and third route, direct liquid phase functionalization with either the propiolic acid or DTBPe-Ph-Tz-COOH lead to surface etching and poorly defined binding. The center two-step procedure starting from gas-phase sensitization preserved surface morphology and resulted in well-defined binding. 5 ACS Paragon Plus Environment


Figure 2 shows XPS and SEM studies of key steps illustrated in Figure 1 and compares the three different procedures. The pristine ZnO nanorods are shown in Figure 2 a. No surface nitrogen is observed, and the SEM shows a top view of the ZnO nanorods. This morphology is preserved after the gas-phase reaction with propiolic acid on the length scale of the SEM resolution (Figure 2 b). Reaction of the resulting ethyne-functionalized surface with perylene azide in the presence of a Cu(I) catalyst (copper (I) acetate, 24 h, 40°C under Ar atmosphere) in THF does not alter the surface morphology. In addition, XPS shows the presence of nitrogen (Figure 2 c). Consistent with triazole formation, three different nitrogen peaks can be identified in Figure 2 c, and this assignment is supported by the computational predictions as described below. In contrast, the solution reaction of pristine ZnO nanorod films with liquid propiolic acid at room temperature (1 mM, room temperature, THF, 30 mins, followed by washing and drying procedure described above) resulted in severe etching, as shown in Figure 2d. Similarly, exposing pristine ZnO nanorods to DTB-Ph-Tz-COOH in solution (1 mM, room temperature, THF, see supporting information for a complete procedure), leads to surface etching (Figure 2 e) as well. Importantly, despite the use of a dilute (1 mM) THF solution and short binding times (30 mins), the majority of the ZnO nanorods were etched. It should be noted that these are binding conditions typically employed for solution sensitization. The morphology of the material is clearly altered by the standard procedure, but some of the nanostructures are still present on the surface following treatment, suggesting that some sensitizer molecules can be bound and can lead to erroneous results or incorrect interpretations in measurements, as demonstrated below.


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Figure 2. XPS spectra and SEM images of the chemical modification steps for ZnO nanorod functionalization. Each step is indicated in the left column: (a) Pristine ZnO nanorods; (b) Same material dosed with propiolic acid in the gas phase; (c) Material in (b) reacted with 9-(4azidophenyl)-2,5-di-tert-butylperylene via copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne click reaction (CuAAC) in solution (following washing and drying as described in the text); (d) Pristine nanorods exposed to liquid phase propiolic acid (following washing and drying procedure described in the text); (e) The ZnO nanorods exposed to a solution of 1-(4-(8,11-di-tert-butylperylen-3-yl)phenyl)-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxylic acid (following washing and drying as described in the text). The assignment of the color-coded features in part (c) is performed based on DFT calculations, as described in the text. 7 ACS Paragon Plus Environment


One example of such misinterpretation can be inferred based on the N 1s XPS studies presented in Figure 2 for each of the surface modification steps. Clean ZnO nanorods or the same material exposed to the propiolic acid do not exhibit any signatures of nitrogen-containing species, as expected. The liquid phase attachment of DTB-Ph-N3 to the gas phase propiolic acidprefunctionalized ZnO nanorods results in the signature of the triazole ring supported by the computational DFT investigations summarized in Figure 2 c. This comparison is also supported by the previous studies of triazole ring formation.27–29 Direct exposure to a DTB-Ph-Tz-COOH solution also results in a similar N 1s signature (Figure 2 e), although the intensity of the observed feature is much smaller compared to the spectrum in Figure 2 c. In summary, chemical attachment or physisorption of DTB-Ph-Tz-COOH to ZnO nanorods does occur, but it is not obvious what the surface species formed in this case really are, since the reaction clearly results in a nearly complete destruction of the nanorods. In order to address these concerns, a set of ultrafast measurements were performed and compared for the differently prepared samples. It is well known that the photoexcitation of perylene dyes bound to TiO2 or ZnO leads to interfacial electron transfer into the semiconductor conduction band. For perylene-based sensitizers with similar anchor groups electron transfer times of around 100-200~fs have been observed.30,31 However, this ultrafast heterogeneous electron transfer (HET) relies on strong electronic coupling between sensitizer and semiconductor acceptor state that requires in general chemisorption on the surface. We applied pump/white-light probe transient absorption (TA) to measure the population dynamics of excited state and the formation of the cation. Figure 3 shows a proof-of-principle TA measurement of a ZnO/perylene dye system prepared via click-chemistry compared to the instantaneous response of bare ZnO. The excited state of perylene is known to show absorption above 700 nm. 8 ACS Paragon Plus Environment

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Figure 3. Comparison of excited state decay for bare ZnO (black dashed) and “click” sensitized ZnO (red dotted) together with a fit with a rate model (green solid).

Transients have been extracted from TA maps (shown in supporting information section) at 725 nm and are compared in Figure 3. Spectra were analyzed by fitting the data at specific wavelength to a set of rate equations corresponding to the observed dynamics. Signal analysis is described in detail elsewhere.30 It can be clearly seen that a long-lived contribution is present in the sensitized film that has a life-time of about 200 fs. The spectral position agrees with that of the excited state of perylene and the lifetime (HET time) agrees well with those measured for perylene molecules with similar linkers.31 The rapid disappearance of the excited state signal indicates fast electron injection into ZnO and hence strong electronic coupling between the molecular donor state and the ZnO conduction band acceptor states. Weakly bound molecules, 9 ACS Paragon Plus Environment


on the other hand, would show much slower HET and would result in a much slower decay of the signal. For comparison, the lifetime of the excited state in isolated perylene molecules is approximately 5 ns. These measurements show that the two-step gas-phase click synthesis results in strong electronic coupling between the molecule and the semiconductor. TA measurements have also been performed on the etched surface (Figure 2 e) that resulted from direct exposure to DTBPe-Ph-Tz-COOH. Transients at the excited state absorption wavelength show longer lived contributions (see Supporting Information section) that are consistent with the XPS measurements in Figure 2 e and can be assigned to the weakly bound residues on the etched film. This shows that XPS and TA alone can lead to results that are very similar for well-defined functionalized surfaces and badly etched surfaces and are prone to misinterpretation. Thus, carefully designed chemical modification of ZnO nanostructures can yield identifiable responses and interpretable measurements of heterogeneous electron transfer. It must be emphasized that the interpretation of these measurements requires complete characterization of the systems studied in order to address the actual structures produced by surface modification. In other words, a combination of synthetic capabilities with appropriately designed surface functionalization schemes and spectroscopic and microscopic characterization is a pre-requisite for reliable and useful measurements of HET, as was demonstrated in this work.


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ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information. The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: xxxx.xxxx.xxxx. Material preparation, experimental details, computational description, and transient absorption measurements.

AUTHOR INFORMATION *Corresponding authors E-mails: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The work in AVT group at the University of Delaware was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (DMR1609973 (GOALI)). AVT acknowledges the support of NSF (9724307; 1428149) and the NIH NIGMS COBRE program (P30-GM110758) for research activities in the University of Delaware Surface Analysis Facility and W. M. Keck Center for Advanced Microscopy and Microanalysis. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of



Energy Research, under Awards Number DE-SC0016288 (Gundlach) and DE-FG02-01ER15256 (Galoppini).

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