Chemically tailored carbon-based nanoelectronic materials and devices

Alexander A. Green, Qing Hua Wang, Mark C. Hersam

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Abstract

Carbon-based nanoelectronic materials have attracted significant attention due to their potential to enable and/or improve applications such as transistors, transparent conductors, solar cells, and biosensors. This paper delineates chemical strategies for enhancing the electronic and optical properties of these promising nanomaterials. For example, we have recently developed a scalable technique for sorting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) by their physical and electronic structure using density gradient ultracentrifugation (DGU). The resulting monodisperse SWNTs possess unprecedented uniformity in their electronic and optical properties, thus enabling the fabrication of high performance thin film field-effect transistors and transparent conductors. The DGU technique also enables multi-walled carbon nanotubes to be sorted by the number of walls, which facilitates the preparation of high purity solutions of double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs). Monodisperse DWNT samples yield enhanced performance in transparent conductors and help elucidate the fundamental photophysics of DWNTs. As a final example, this paper will discuss the preparation and characterization of highly ordered self-assembled monolayers on graphene. In this case, organic functionalization allows the chemical properties of graphene to be tailored for subsequent materials deposition in addition to presenting opportunities for graphene-based molecular electronic and sensing devices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2009 9th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE NANO 2009
Pages70-71
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 9th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE NANO 2009 - Genoa, Italy
Duration: Jul 26 2009Jul 30 2009

Publication series

Name2009 9th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE NANO 2009

Other

Other2009 9th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology, IEEE NANO 2009
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityGenoa
Period7/26/097/30/09

Keywords

  • Density gradient ultracentrifugation
  • Double-walled carbon nanotubes
  • Functionalization
  • Graphene
  • Self-assembled monolayers
  • Single-walled carbon nanotubes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Process Chemistry and Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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