Oxidation catalysis by Au spurred intensive research efforts during the last two decades. It is the intense interaction of gold and an oxide material which brings about the catalytic activity, in particular at the perimeter between both partners. The

ZnO nanowire arrays were functionalized with colloidal CdSe quantum dots stabilized by 3-mercaptopropionic acid to form hybrid devices. The photoconductivity of the nanowire/quantum-dot devices was studied under selective photoexcitation of the quantum dots, and it was found that the dynamics strongly depend on the gas environment. Desorption of surface oxygen from both the ZnO nanowires and the CdSe quantum dots, activated by electron tunnelling between the nanowires and the quantum dots, is found to be the dominating process that determines the dynamics of the photoconductivity in the hybrid nanowire/quantum-dot devices.

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In this paper we present optical studies of CdTe quantum dots formed using Zn-induced reorganization. The pattern of quantum dot photoluminescence lines is found to be similar to typical results reported for quantum dots grown with other techniques, although the positively charged exciton line is relatively more pronounced. Also the energy spacing between biexciton and exciton lines is found to be larger than in typical results. Zn-induced reorganization results in quantum dots density higher by an order of magnitude than in Te-induced quantum dots.