Copper chalcogenide nanomaterials have attracted significant research interest due to their remarkable compositional and structural versatility, enabling them to support large densities of delocalized charge-carriers. Deliberate targeting of structure and composition in copper chalcogenide nanomaterials is essential because it imparts control over their resulting optoelectronic and plasmonic properties. Nanoscale copper phosphide remains relatively unexplored compared to its chalcogenide analogs due in part to a low degree of synthetic sophistication afforded by typical colloidal metal phosphide precursors. Here, we present the use of an aminophosphine precursor to synthesize monodisperse, size-tunable and colloidally stable Cu3−xP nanocrystals. The use of molecular redox agents to modulate the localized surface plasmon resonance of nanoscale Cu3−xP is also explored.

Colloidal synthesis of copper phosphide nanocrystals by redox disproportionation of tris(diethylamino)phosphine

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