Issue 39, 2013
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RSC Advances

3-D nanorod arrays of metal–organic KTCNQ semiconductor on textiles for flexible organic electronics†

Rajesh Ramanathan,a   Ahmad Esmaielzadeh Kandjani,a   Sumeet Walia,b   Sivacarendran Balendhran,b   Suresh K. Bhargava,c   Kourosh Kalantar-zadehb  and  Vipul Bansal*a  

* Corresponding authors

a NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory (NBRL), School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476 V, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
E-mail: vipul.bansal@rmit.edu.au
Fax: +61 3 9925 3747
Tel: +61 3 9925 2121

b School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476 V, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

c Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476 V, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

Abstract

We present a facile and low temperature approach for the fabrication of flexible organic electronic devices by growing high aspect ratio nanorod arrays of potassium 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (KTCNQ), a crystalline organic semiconductor with charge transfer capabilities, on cotton threads interwoven within the three-dimensional (3-D) matrix of a cotton textile. We demonstrate the capability of this material in developing opto-electronic switches and gas sensors. The ability to grow KTCNQ nanorod arrays in a radial symmetry directly on textiles as a versatile 3-D microtemplate can be extended to the synthesis of a variety of metal–organic charge transfer complexes onto different flexible substrates that can find applications in electronics, catalysis and sensing.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA43291B
Article type
Communication
Submitted
27 Jun 2013
Accepted
23 Jul 2013
First published
25 Jul 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 17654-17658

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3-D nanorod arrays of metal–organic KTCNQ semiconductor on textiles for flexible organic electronics

R. Ramanathan, A. E. Kandjani, S. Walia, S. Balendhran, S. K. Bhargava, K. Kalantar-zadeh and V. Bansal, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 17654 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA43291B

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