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CNT array-induced nanobubble assembly, nanodisk fabrication and enhanced spectral detection of CNT bundle density

Zhiyuan Xia1, Ziming Ye1, Bo Zhao1, Tingsong Zhang2, Qi Wang1, Kun Chen1, Meng Li3, Xiaobing Kong1, Yu-Qing Zheng2, Enzheng Shi4, Yuanyuan Shang3( ), Anyuan Cao1( )
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China
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Realized by nanobubble self-assembly, precise, selective decoration of periodic, even-sized Ag nanodisks along horizontally aligned carbon nanotube arrays enables the surface enhanced Raman scattering of dye molecules and an accurate spectral detection of carbon nanotube bundles in quantities.

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Alignment, functionalization and detection of carbon nanotube (CNT) bundles are vital processes for utilizing this one-dimensional nanomaterial in electronics. Here, we report a polymer-assisted wet shearing method to acquire super-aligned crater-patterned CNT arrays by nanobubble (NB) self-assembly with a "migrate and aggregation" mechanism and use craters to controllably mold even-sized nanodisks periodically along CNT bundles with tunable densities. This green, low-cost method can be extended to diverse substrates and fabricate different nanodisks. As an example, the Ag-nanodisk-patterned CNT arrays are utilized as substrates of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for rhodamine 6G (R6G) and methylene blue (MB) in which a linear correlation is found between the SERS intensity and the CNT bundle density due to the periodic distribution of hot spots, enabling a spectral detection of CNT bundles and their densities by conventional dye molecules. Distinguishing from routine morphological characterization, this spectral method possesses an enhanced accuracy and a detection range of 0.1–2 μm–1, showing its uniqueness in the detection of CNT bundle density since the intensity of traditional spectral merely relates to the quantity of CNTs, exhibiting its potential in future CNT-bundle-based electronics.

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CNT arraysnanobubblesself-assemblynanodiskssurface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 8,
August 2024
Pages 7737-7745
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-024-6734-y
Cite this article:
Xia Z, Ye Z, Zhao B, et al. CNT array-induced nanobubble assembly, nanodisk fabrication and enhanced spectral detection of CNT bundle density. Nano Research, 2024, 17(8): 7737-7745. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6734-y
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Received: 29 January 2024
Revised: 30 April 2024
Accepted: 02 May 2024
Published: 08 June 2024
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