Decoration of suspended single-walled carbon nanotubes with soft-landed size-selected metal nanoparticles

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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2020.137907
Author	Search for: Khojasteh, Malak; Search for: Mecklenburg, Matthew H.; Search for: Edwards, Patrick J.; Search for: Lefebvre, Jacques¹; Search for: Ding, Jianfu¹; Search for: Malenfant, Patrick R.L.¹; Search for: Kresin, Vitaly V.ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6226-4576
Affiliation	National Research Council Canada. Security and Disruptive Technologies
Format	Text, Article
Subject	single-walled carbon nanotubes; size-selected nanoparticles; soft landing; deposition
Abstract	We describe a technique to prepare ensembles of neat, unbundled single-walled carbon nanotubes decorated with pure size-filtered metal nanoparticles. Polymer-encased nanotubes are drop-cast on nanoporous transmission electron microscope membrane grids, mounted within a nanoparticle-deposition apparatus, baked in situ to remove the polymer coating, and exposed to a beam of pure size-selected metal nanoparticles. Subsequent electron microscopy imaging reveals the presence of nanoparticles supported by pure suspended single-walled nanotubes. This method is promising for efficient production of prototype chemical and physical devices which require the presence of clean well-defined nanoparticle-nanotube hybrids for characterization, imaging, and applications.
Publication date	2020-02-29
Publisher	Elsevier
In	Thin Solid Films 699, 137907.
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
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Record created	2020-07-03
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