Rational growth of branched nanowire heterostructures with synthetically encoded properties and function
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Tian, Bozhi
Jiang, Xiaocheng
Xiang, Jie
Qian, Fang
Zheng, Gengfeng
Wang, Hongtao
Mai, Liqiang
Lieber, Charles M.
Date Issued
July 2011
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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Jiang, X. et al. “Rational growth of branched nanowire heterostructures with synthetically encoded properties and function.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108.30 (2011): 12212-12216. Web. 1 Feb. 2012.
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Abstract
Branched nanostructures represent unique, 3D building blocks for the “bottom-up” paradigm of nanoscale science and technology. Here, we report a rational, multistep approach toward the general synthesis of 3D branched nanowire (NW) heterostructures. Single-crystalline semiconductor, including groups IV, III–V, and II–VI, and metal branches have been selectively grown on core or core/shell NW backbones, with the composition, morphology, and doping of core (core/shell) NWs and branch NWs well controlled during synthesis. Measurements made on the different composition branched NW structures demonstrate encoding of functional p-type/n-type diodes and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as well as field effect transistors with device function localized at the branch/backbone NW junctions. In addition, multibranch/backbone NW structures were synthesized and used to demonstrate capability to create addressable nanoscale LED arrays, logic circuits, and biological sensors. Our work demonstrates a previously undescribed level of structural and functional complexity in NW materials, and more generally, highlights the potential of bottom-up synthesis to yield increasingly complex functional systems in the future.
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Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108584108
