Bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires

Autor:	Oliver E. C. Gould, Jessica Gwyther, Benjamin R. Horrocks, Emily L. Kynaston, Ali Nazemi, Andrew Houlton, Osama El-Zubir, George R. Whittell, Ian Manners
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	chemistry.chemical_classification Materials science Fabrication chemistry Chemisorption Copolymer Nanowire Electrical element Nanotechnology Seeding General Chemistry Metal electrodes Polymer
Zdroj:	Chemical Science. 11:6222-6228
ISSN:	2041-6539 2041-6520
DOI:	10.1039/d0sc02011g
Popis:	The bottom-up assembly of nanoelectronic devices from molecular building blocks is a target of widespread interest. Herein we demonstrate an in situ seeded growth approach to produce a nanowire-based electrical device. This exploits the chemisorption of block terpolymer-based seed fibres with a thiophene-functionalised corona onto metal electrodes as the initial step. We then use these surface-bound seeds to initiate the growth of well-defined one-dimensional fibre-like micelles via the seeded growth method known as “Living crystallisation-driven self-assembly’’ and demonstrate that they are capable of spanning an interelectrode gap. Finally, a chemical oxidation step was used to transform the nanofibres into nanowires to generate a two-terminal device. This seeded growth approach of growing well-defined circuit elements provides a useful new design tool for bottom-up device fabrication.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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