Synthesis of Black Phosphorene Quantum Dots from Red Phosphorus

Rebecca R.C. Shutt; Thrinathreddy Ramireddy; Evgenios Stylianidis; Camilla Di Mino; Rebecca A. Ingle; Gabriel Ing; Ary A. Wibowo; Hieu T. Nguyen; Christopher A. Howard; Alexey M. Glushenkov; Andrew Stewart; Adam J. Clancy

doi:10.1002/chem.202301232

Synthesis of Black Phosphorene Quantum Dots from Red Phosphorus

Rebecca R.C. Shutt, Thrinathreddy Ramireddy, Evgenios Stylianidis, Camilla Di Mino, Rebecca A. Ingle, Gabriel Ing, Ary A. Wibowo, Hieu T. Nguyen, Christopher A. Howard, Alexey M. Glushenkov, Andrew Stewart^*, Adam J. Clancy^*

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Black phosphorene quantum dots (BPQDs) are most commonly derived from high-cost black phosphorus, while previous syntheses from the low-cost red phosphorus (P_red) allotrope are highly oxidised. Herein, we present an intrinsically scalable method to produce high quality BPQDs, by first ball-milling P_red to create nanocrystalline P_black and subsequent reductive etching using lithium electride solvated in liquid ammonia. The resultant ~25 nm BPQDs are crystalline with low oxygen content, and spontaneously soluble as individualized monolayers in tertiary amide solvents, as directly imaged by liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy. This new method presents a scalable route to producing quantities of high quality BPQDs for academic and industrial applications.

Original language	English
Article number	e202301232
Journal	Chemistry - A European Journal
Volume	29
Issue number	55
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202301232
Publication status	Published - 2 Oct 2023

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