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Nanostructured Materials. Younan Xia Department of Chemistry University of Washintgon Seattle, Washington 98195 E-mail: xia@chem.washington.edu. What Are Nanostructures?. “These days, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting something with the word ‘nano’ on it.”.
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Nanostructured Materials Younan Xia Department of Chemistry University of Washintgon Seattle, Washington 98195 E-mail: xia@chem.washington.edu
What Are Nanostructures? “These days, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting something with the word ‘nano’ on it.” C&EN News, 2003, April 28, p. 27 Molecular Nano Meso H-atom benzene buckyball soap molecules micelles dendrimers Q-dots hemoglobin viruses carbon nanotubes gold nanoparticles bacteria dusts blood cells hairs colloidal particles
Make It Smaller! First Planar IC First Transistor (1958, Fairchild) (1947, Bell Lab) 180 nm
Moore’s Law: Smaller Is Better! Peercy, Nature 2000, 406, 1023
Types of Nanostructured Materials (1D) (2D) (0D) Joannopoulos et al., Photonic Crystals, 1995
Dependence of Surface Area on Size no change in volume r r R r r volume = 4pR3/3 = N 4pr3/3 N = R3/r3 new surface/old surface = N 4pr2/4pR2 = R/r when R=1 mm and r=10 nm, the ratio is 100
Pressure in A Droplet versus Size Pout Pin Young-Laplace Eq. r DP=Pin - Pout = 2g/r for water, g=7x10-2 N/m when r=1 mm, DP=1.4x105 N/m2 or 1.4 atm when r=100 nm, DP=1.4x106 N/m2 or 14 atm when r=10 nm, DP=1.4x107 N/m2 or 140atm
Quantum Confinement: Particle in A Box DE = (n22 - n12)h2/8mL2
Q-Dots: Tuning of Property by Size Alivisatos, MRS Bulletin 1995, August, 23
Q-Dots: Same Substance, Different Colors Alivisatos (UC Berkeley), Bawendi (MIT), Brus (Columbia)
Q-Dots: Superior Fluorescent Markers Superior Brightness Incredible Photostability Multi-Color Capability Single Excitation Source http://www.qdots.com
Quantized Conductance of Electrons metal A L G Ohm’s Law 2e2/h ~ 1/13 kW G = I/v =s(A/L) A van Houten et al., PhysicsToday 1996, July, 22
Metal-Insulator-Metal Junction I Al Al Al2O3 A 0 d V Q = CV C = e0eA/d = 8.85x10-12 Fm-1 8 (10x10 nm2/1nm) = 7.08x10-18 F @100 mV, Q=7.08x10-19 c, or ~4 electrons @25 mV, Q=7.08x10-19 c, or ~1 electron @10 mV, Q=7.08x10-19 c, or ~0.4 electron
Coulomb Blockade and Staircase I -e/2C 0 V e/2C Barner & Ruggerio, Phys. Rev. Lett. 1987, 59, 807
Different Approaches to Nanostructures Top-Down Bottom-Up Ozin, Adv. Mater. 1992, 4, 612
Contact Mode Photolithography photon chrome photoresist quartz substrate substrate
Resolving Power (d) of An Optical Lens Limit placed by diffraction d = 0.61 l / NA NA: the numerical aperture of a lens, and NA = n sina; n: the refractive index of the medium above the sample a: the acceptance angle lens a in air, n=1, dmax = 0.61 l for visible light, ~300 nm sample when a=45 degrees, d ~ l
Electron-Beam Lithography Resolution: 1-3 nm l=h/(2meV)1/2 100 kV, l=4 pm FEI Siron XL 30 UW NanoTech Center
Soft Lithography: An Alternative Strategy Whitesides & Love, Sci. Am. 2001, 285(3), 38 Xia & Whitesides, Angew. Chem. 1998, 37, 551
Bottom-Up Approach: Chemical Synthesis UW Bagley Hall, Room 16
Q-Dots Made by Arrested Precipitation Whitesides & Love,Sci. Am. 2001, 283(3), 38 Alivisatos, MRS Bulletin 1995, August, 23 Bawendi et al.,J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1993, 115, 8706
Anisotropic Growth Induced by Structure • Intrinsic Optical Chirality • Highest Photoconductivity • (s = 8x104 S/cm for t-Se) • Piezoelectric & Nonlinear • Optical (NLO) Properties • Thermoelectric Properties • Useful Catalytic Properties • (Halogenation, Oxidation) • Reactivities to Form Other • Functional Materials such • as CdSe, CuSe, and Ag2Se Trigonal Selenium (t-Se) Se Spiral Chain
Synthesis of Uniform Nanowires of t-Se 100 oC 100 oC a-Se R.T. a-Se DG t-Se (t-Se) t-Se a-Se Gates, Yin & Xia, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 12582
Various Stages of Nanowire Growth Gates, Mayers, Cattle & Xia, Adv. Func. Mater. 2002, 12, 219
Formation of Uniform Silver Nanowires AgNO3 + HO(CH2)2OH PtCl2 XRD (PVP) PVP:Ag=1:1 160-180 oC Sun, Gates, Mayers & Xia, Nano Lett. 2002, 2, 165
One-Dimensional Photonic Crystals Plane-Wave-Expansion-Method (PWEM)
Photonic Band Structures of 1-D Systems Band Gap w=(c/e1/2)k
Opals and Self-Assembly of Colloids Sanders, Nature 1964, 204, 1151
Crystallization of Spherical Colloids Lu, Yin, Gates & Xia, Langmuir 2001, 17, 6344
Photonic Band Structure and Spectra Photonic Band Structure Trans./Refl. Spectra Xia, Gates & Li, Adv. Mater. 2001, 13, 415
Inverse Opal and Photonic Properties Remove Template (n2/n1 = 3.0) Xia, Gates, Yin & Lu, Adv. Mater. 2000, 12, 693
Diffusion Coefficient (D) versus Size Random-Walk Eq. Stokes-Einstein Eq. <d2>1/2 = (2Dt)1/2 D = kBT/6phr • for cells, r is around 10 mm • for bacteria, r is around 1 mm • for viruses, r is around 10 nm (0.01 mm)