Quantifying Single-Carbon Nanotube–Electrode Contact via the Nanoimpact Method

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• 作者：Xiuting Li ; Christopher Batchelor-McAuley ; Lidong Shao ; Stanislav V. Sokolov ; Neil P. Young ; Richard G. Compton
• 刊名：The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 19, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：8
• 期：2
• 页码：507-511
• 全文大小：320K
• ISSN：1948-7185

文摘

A new methodology is developed to enable the measurement of the resistance across individual carbon nanotube-electrode contacts. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are suspended in the solution phase and occasionally contact the electrified interface, some of which bridge a micron-sized gap between two microbands of an interdigitated gold electrode. A potential difference is applied between the contacts and the magnitude of the current increase after the arrival of the CNT gives a measure of the resistance associated with the single CNT–gold contact. These experiments reveal the presence of a high contact resistance (∼50 MΩ), which significantly dominates the charge-transfer process. Further measurements on ensembles of CNTs made using a dilute layer of CNTs affixed to the interdigitated electrode surface and measured in the absence of solvent showed responses consistent with the same high value of contact resistance.