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ACS NANO
卷 4, 期 12, 页码 7275-7282出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nn102128w
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colloidal nanoparticles; convective self-assembly; conductive wires
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- French National Agency (ANR) [ANR-09-NIRT-004]
Ordered arrays of centimeter-long nanoparticle wires are fabricated by convective self-assembly from aqueous suspensions of 18 nm gold colloids, on flat SiO2/Si substrates without any prepatterning. The orientation of the wires can be switched from parallel to perpendicular to the substrate-liquid-air contact line by controlling the substrate temperature. While the wires parallel to the meniscus are obtained by a stick-slip process, a mechanism based on critical density-triggered particle pinning is proposed to explain the formation of wires perpendicular to the meniscus. The geometry of the wire arrays is tuned by simply controlling the meniscus translation speed. Wires are typically characterized by widths of a few micrometers (1.8-8.2 mu m), thicknesses of mono- to multilayers (18-70 nm), and spacings of few tens of micrometers. The fabricated nanoparticle wires are conductive, exhibiting a metallic resistive behavior in ambient conditions. Resistivity values of 5 x 10(-6) and 5 x 10(-2) Omega m are obtained on multilayer and monolayer nanoparticle wires, respectively. Such conductive nanoparticle wire arrays, fabricated by a simple and low-cost bottom-up strategy, offer opportunities for developing nanoparticle-based functional devices.
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