Bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires
| dc.contributor.author | El-Zubir, Osama | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kynaston, Emily L. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gwyther, Jessica | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nazemi, Ali | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gould, Oliver E. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Whittell, George R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Horrocks, Benjamin. R. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Manners, Ian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Houlton, Andrew | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T00:37:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T00:37:51Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2020 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.description.reviewstatus | Reviewed | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Faculty | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | EPSRC is thanked for funding under grant no. EP/K018051/1 and EP/K017799/1. IM also thanks the Canadian Government for a C150 Research Chair. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | El-Zubir, O., Kynaston, E. L., Gwyther, J., Nazemi, A., Gould, O. E. C., Whittell, G. R., … Houlton, A. (2020). Bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires. Chemical Science, 11(24). https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02011g | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1039/d0sc02011g | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12352 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Chemical Science | en_US |
| dc.subject.department | Department of Chemistry | |
| dc.title | Bottom-up device fabrication via the seeded growth of polymer-based nanowires | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |