Adsorption of organic molecules at ZnO nanoparticle surfaces enables the transfer of energy or charge across resulting organic-inorganic interfaces and, consequently, determines the optoelectronic performance of ZnO based hybrids. We investigated on aqueous colloidal ZnO dispersions adsorption-induced changes with photoluminescence (PL) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Citrate and acetate ion adsorption increases or decreases radiative exciton annihilation at hν = 3.3 eV and at room temperature, respectively. Searching for a correspondence between PL emission and the yield of trapped charge carriers originating from exciton separation - using photon energies of hν = 4.6 eV and fluxes of = 1014 cm-2 s-1 for excitation - we found that there is a negligible fraction of paramagnetic products that originate from exciton separation. Upon polychromatic excitation with significantly higher photon fluxes (Ṅ ph = 1016 cm-2·s-1), ZnO specific shallow defects trap unpaired electrons in citrate and acetate functionalized samples. The adsorption dependent PL intensity changes and the excitation parameter dependent yield of separated charges (EPR) in colloidal ZnO nanoparticles underline that the distribution over the different exciton annihilation channels sensitively depends on interface composition and the intensity of the photoexcitation light.

Central European Institute of Technology Brno University of Technology Purkynova 123 Brno 612 00 Czech Republic

Department of Chemistry and Physics of Materials University of Salzburg Jakob Haringer Strasse 2a A 5020 Salzburg

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