Accessing Binary CdE [E = S, Se, Te] and Ternary Cd<i><sub>x</sub></i>Zn<sub>1-</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i>E [E = S, Se] Materials in Mesoporous Architectures Using Silylated-Chalcogen Reagents
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Abstract
Binary cadmium chalcogenide materials (CdS, CdSe, and CdTe) have been successfully synthesized at room temperature in the mesoporous environments of MCM-41 and MCF (mesocellular foam) by utilizing silylated-chalcogen reagents [E(SiMe 3 ) 2, E = S, Se, Te] as an efficient delivery source of E 2- . The encapsulated materials are easily prepared by the initial complexation of anhydrous cadmium acetate to ethylenediamine functionalized mesoporous material. The subsequent addition of E(SiMe 3 ) 2 leads to the preferential formation of CdE materials within the host. The observed blue shift in absorption maximum is in agreement with the expected quantum confinement of these materials given the nanometer dimensions of the mesoporous architecture. Mild thermal treatment of CdS and CdSe composites demonstrates the ability to control particle growth under specified thermal conditions, ultimately leading to a red shift in absorption maximum upon increasing thermolysis temperature. The utility of silylated-chalcogen reagents was further demonstrated in the formation of ternary Cd x Zn 1- x E (E = S, Se) encapsulated in MCF. The addition of the molecular precursor, ( N, N ‘-TMEDA) Zn(ESiMe 3 ) 2 (TMEDA = N, N, N ‘, N ‘-tetramethylethylenediamine), to Cd−MCF yields Cd 0.33 Zn 0.76 S− and Cd 0.34 Zn 0.6 Se−MCF materials, where the absorption maximum lies between that of the respective parent binary composites. All materials have been characterized by 13 C CP-MAS NMR and UV−vis spectroscopy, high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray, and nitrogen sorption analysis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".