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Water-Assisted Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotube–ZnO Heterojunction Arrays†

  1. J. Liu,
  2. X. Li,
  3. L. Dai

Article first published online: 8 JUN 2006

DOI: 10.1002/adma.200502346

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 18, Issue 13, pages 1740–1744, July, 2006

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Liu, J., Li, X. and Dai, L. (2006), Water-Assisted Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotube–ZnO Heterojunction Arrays. Adv. Mater., 18: 1740–1744. doi: 10.1002/adma.200502346

Author Information

  1. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Dayton, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469-0240, USA

  1. †

    This work was supported by the NSF (CCF-0403130), ACS (PRF 39060-AC5M), AFOSR, AFRL/ML, Wright Brothers Institute, Dayton Development Collation, and the University of Dayton. We acknowledge the NEST Lab at UD for the access of SEM and TEM facilities.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 27 JUN 2006
  2. Article first published online: 8 JUN 2006
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 8 MAR 2006
  4. Manuscript Received: 2 NOV 2005

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Keywords:

  • Carbon nanotubes;
  • Chemical vapor deposition, water-assisted;
  • Heterojunctions;
  • Nanostructures, inorganic;
  • Zinc oxide
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Using water-assisted chemical vapor deposition, aligned CNT–ZnO (CNT: carbon nanotube) heterojunctions are formed on a Zn substrate. The aligned CNT heterojunctions with intimately connected ZnO particles/rods show interesting optoelectronic properties of practical significance. This cost-effective and efficient approach can be scaled up for the production of large-area heterojunction arrays (see figure).

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