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Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates.

ABSTRACT: Directed assembly of nanoscale building blocks such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) into desired architectures is a major hurdle for a broad range of basic research and technological applications (e.g., electronic devices and sensors). Here we demonstrate a parallel assembly process that allows one to simultaneously position, shape, and link SWNTs with sub-100-nm resolution. Our method is based on the observation that SWNTs are strongly attracted to COOH-terminated self-assembled monolayers (COOH-SAMs) and that SWNTs with lengths greater than the dimensions of a COOH-SAM feature will align along the boundary between the COOH-SAM feature and a passivating CH3-terminated SAM. By using nanopatterned affinity templates of 16-mercaptohexadecanonic acid, passivated with 1-octadecanethiol, we have formed SWNT dot, ring, arc, letter, and even more sophisticated structured thin films and continuous ropes. Experiment and theory (Monte Carlo simulations) suggest that the COOH-SAMs localize the solvent carrying the nanotubes on the SAM features, and that van der Waals interactions between the tubes and the COOH-rich feature drive the assembly process. A mathematical relationship describing the geometrically weighted interactions between SWNTs and the two different SAMs required to overcome solvent-SWNT interactions and effect assembly is provided.

SUBMITTER: Wang Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1413750 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates.

Wang Yuhuang Y Maspoch Daniel D Zou Shengli S Schatz George C GC Smalley Richard E RE Mirkin Chad A CA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060206 7

Directed assembly of nanoscale building blocks such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) into desired architectures is a major hurdle for a broad range of basic research and technological applications (e.g., electronic devices and sensors). Here we demonstrate a parallel assembly process that allows one to simultaneously position, shape, and link SWNTs with sub-100-nm resolution. Our method is based on the observation that SWNTs are strongly attracted to COOH-terminated self-assembled monol ...[more]

PMID: 16461892

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Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates.

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