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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Controllable crystalline structure of fullerenenanorods and transport properties of an individual nanorod†

Heng-Xing Ji,ab   Jin-Song Hu,a   Li-Jun Wan,*a   Qing-Xin Tangab  and  Wen-Ping Hu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China
E-mail: wanlijun@iccas.ac.cn, huwp@iccas.ac.cn
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b Graduate School of CAS, Beijing, China

Abstract

Single-crystalline pristine C60nanorods with fcc crystal structure were synthesized by solvent-induced self-assembly followed by heat treatment. The length and length-to-width ratio of C60nanorods were tunable by controlling the concentration of C60 molecules in the stock solution. Devices consisting of individual fcc nanorods were fabricated by a focused ion beam (FIB) technique. For comparison, nanorods of hcp structure were synthesized and devices consisting of individual hcp nanorods were fabricated also. The transport properties of an individual C60nanorod suggested that the fcc nanorods exhibited higher conductivity than the hcp nanorods, i.e., the transport properties of C60nanorods exhibited a strong phase dependence. The temperature dependence of the devices indicated the thermally activated carrier injection of the fcc nanorods. The activation energies of the nanorods are much smaller than those of the bulk crystals of C60, indicating easier carrier injection of the fcc nanorods and their potential applications for the fabrication of efficient nanodevices. The good operational stability of individual C60nanorod based devices under sustained high dc voltage suggested their application as stable units in micro electronics or chemical sensor systems.

Graphical abstract: Controllable crystalline structure of fullerene nanorods and transport properties of an individual nanorod

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B712696D
Article type
Paper
Submitted
17 Aug 2007
Accepted
09 Nov 2007
First published
23 Nov 2007

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 328-332

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Controllable crystalline structure of fullerene nanorods and transport properties of an individual nanorod

H. Ji, J. Hu, L. Wan, Q. Tang and W. Hu, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 328 DOI: 10.1039/B712696D

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