TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-organized single-walled carbon nanotube conducting thin films with honeycomb structures on flexible plastic films
AU - Wakamatsu, Nobuo
AU - Takamori, Hisayoshi
AU - Fujigaya, Tsuyohiko
AU - Nakashima, Naotoshi
PY - 2009/1/23
Y1 - 2009/1/23
N2 - Complex 1, synthesized from anionic shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes and cationic ammonium lipid dissolved in organic solvents, is cast on pretreated transparent flexible poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) films under a higher relative humidity to form thin films with self-organized honeycomb structures. The cell sizes are controllable by changing the experimental conditions. The lipid, which is the cationic part of complex 1, is easily removed by a simple ion-exchange method, while maintaining the basic honeycomb structures. After the ion exchange, the nanotube honeycomb films on PET with thinner skeletons exhibit a dramatic decrease in the surface resistivity from insulating to conducting. Carbon nanotubes with honeycomb structures formed by the self-organization on flexible polymer films are useful in many areas of nanoscience and technology including nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, nanodevices, catalysts, sensors, and so on.
AB - Complex 1, synthesized from anionic shortened single-walled carbon nanotubes and cationic ammonium lipid dissolved in organic solvents, is cast on pretreated transparent flexible poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) films under a higher relative humidity to form thin films with self-organized honeycomb structures. The cell sizes are controllable by changing the experimental conditions. The lipid, which is the cationic part of complex 1, is easily removed by a simple ion-exchange method, while maintaining the basic honeycomb structures. After the ion exchange, the nanotube honeycomb films on PET with thinner skeletons exhibit a dramatic decrease in the surface resistivity from insulating to conducting. Carbon nanotubes with honeycomb structures formed by the self-organization on flexible polymer films are useful in many areas of nanoscience and technology including nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, nanodevices, catalysts, sensors, and so on.
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.200801241
DO - 10.1002/adfm.200801241
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58849086310
VL - 19
SP - 311
EP - 316
JO - Advanced Functional Materials
JF - Advanced Functional Materials
SN - 1616-301X
IS - 2
ER -