Highly Organized Two- and Three-Dimensional Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube–Polymer Hybrid Architectures

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• 作者：Bo Li ; Myung Gwan Hahm ; Young Lae Kim ; Hyun Young Jung ; Swastik Kar ; Yung Joon Jung
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 28, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：5
• 期：6
• 页码：4826-4834
• 全文大小：1109K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) network architectures combined with flexible mediums (especially polymers) are strong candidates for functional flexible devices and composite structures requiring the combination of unique electronic, optical, and/or mechanical properties of SWCNTs and polymer materials. However, to build functional flexible devices with SWCNTs, it is required to have abilities to assemble and incorporate SWCNTs in desired locations, orientations, and dimensions on/inside polymer substrates. Here, we present unique two- and three-dimensional SWCNT network–polymer hybrid architectures by combining unprecedented control over growth, assembly, and transfer processes of SWCNTs. Several SWCNT architectures have been built on polymer materials ranging from two-dimensional suspended SWCNT microlines on PDMS microchannels to three-dimensional “PDMS-vertically aligned SWCNTs-PDMS” sandwich structures. Also a combined lateral SWCNT microline and vertically aligned SWCNT flexible device was demonstrated with good electrical conductivity and low junction resistance. The results reported here open the pathway for the development of SWCNT-based functional systems in various flexible device applications.