PMID- 21280670
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110520
LR  - 20110222
IS  - 1936-086X (Electronic)
IS  - 1936-0851 (Linking)
VI  - 5
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011 Feb 22
TI  - Multilevel, multicomponent microarchitectures of vertically-aligned carbon 
      nanotubes for diverse applications.
PG  - 994-1002
LID - 10.1021/nn102411s [doi]
AB  - A simple multiple contact transfer technique has been developed for controllable 
      fabrication of multilevel, multicomponent microarchitectures of vertically 
      aligned carbon nanotubes (VA-CNTs). Three dimensional (3-D) multicomponent 
      micropatterns of aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and multiwalled 
      carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) have been fabricated, which can be used to develop a 
      newly designed touch sensor with reversible electrical responses for potential 
      applications in electronic devices, as demonstrated in this study. The 
      demonstrated dependence of light diffraction on structural transfiguration of the 
      resultant CNT micropattern also indicates their potential for optical devices. 
      Further introduction of various components with specific properties (e.g., ZnO 
      nanorods) into the CNT micropatterns enabled us to tailor such surface 
      characteristics as wettability and light response. Owing to the highly generic 
      nature of the multiple contact transfer strategy, the methodology developed here 
      could provide a general approach for interposing a large variety of 
      multicomponent elements (e.g., nanotubes, nanorods/wires, photonic crystals, 
      etc.) onto a single chip for multifunctional device applications.
FAU - Qu, Liangti
AU  - Qu L
AD  - Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, Department of 
      Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, P. 
      R. China. lqu@bit.edu.cn
FAU - Vaia, Rich A
AU  - Vaia RA
FAU - Dai, Liming
AU  - Dai L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20110131
PL  - United States
TA  - ACS Nano
JT  - ACS nano
JID - 101313589
EDAT- 2011/02/02 06:00
MHDA- 2011/02/02 06:01
CRDT- 2011/02/02 06:00
PHST- 2011/02/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/02/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/02/02 06:01 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/nn102411s [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - ACS Nano. 2011 Feb 22;5(2):994-1002. doi: 10.1021/nn102411s. Epub 2011 Jan 31.