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Here, we report an in-depth study of this approach as a means to deposit colloidal quantum dots (CQDs), in a range of solvents. For the first time, we report the significant improvement of EPD performance via the use of dichloromethane (DCM) for deposition of CQDs, producing a corresponding CQD-TiO2 composite with a near 10-fold increase in quantum dot loading relative to more commonly used solvents such as chloroform or toluene. We propose this effect is due to the higher dielectric constant of the solvent relative to more commonly used and therefore the stronger effect of EPD in this medium, though there remains the possibility that changes in zeta potential may also play an important role. In addition, this solvent choice enables the true universality of QD EPD to be demonstrated, via the sensitization of porous TiO2 electrodes with a range of ligand capped CdSe QDs and a range of group II-VI CQDs including CdS, CdSe\/CdS, CdS\/CdSe and CdTe\/CdSe, and group IV-VI PbS QDs.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma12244089","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,9]],"date-time":"2019-12-09T05:54:51Z","timestamp":1575870891000},"page":"4089","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Electrophoretic Deposition of Quantum Dots and Characterisation of Composites"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3591-9477","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Finn","family":"Purcell-Milton","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland"},{"name":"BEACON, Bioeconomy Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Antton","family":"Curutchet","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4772-778X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yurii","family":"Gun\u2019ko","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland"},{"name":"BEACON, Bioeconomy Research Centre, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pmatsci.2006.07.001","article-title":"A review on fundamentals and applications of electrophoretic deposition (epd)","volume":"52","author":"Besra","year":"2007","journal-title":"Prog. 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