Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Rational Organic Semiconductor Material Design A Pathway Towards Breakthrough Performance in Solar Cells Design and Fabrication of the First All-Carbon-Based Solar Cell Upconverting Electrodes for Improved Solar Energy Conversion Advanced Electron Transport Materials for Application in Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Plasmonic Photovoltaics Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Molecular Solar Cells Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Advanced Electric Grid Grid Storage Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Geoengineering Exploratory Efforts All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes

Start Date: September 2008
Status: Completed

Investigators

Zhenan Bao, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University

Annual Reports

Publications

Barman, S. N., D. Pan, M. Vosgueritchian, A. P. Zoombelt, G. Galli, and Z. Bao. "Dispersion of single walled carbon nanotubes in amidine solvents." Nanotechnology 23, no. 34 (2012): 344011.
Opatkiewicz, J. P., M. C. LeMieux, D. Liu, M. Vosgueritchian, S. N. Barman, C. M. Elkins, J. Hedrick, and Z. Bao. "Using Nitrile Functional Groups to Replace Amines for Solution-Deposited Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Network Films." ACS Nano 6, no. 6 (2012): 4845-4853.
Vosgueritchian, Michael, Darren J. Lipomi, and Zhenan Bao. "Highly conductive and transparent PEDOT: PSS films with a fluorosurfactant for stretchable and flexible transparent electrodes." Advanced Functional Materials, 2 (2), 421-428 (2012).
Opatkiewicz, J. P., M. C. LeMieux, N. P. Patil, H. Wei, S. Mitra, and Z. Bao. “The effect of amine protonation on the electrical properties of spin-assembled single-walled carbon nanotube networks,” Nanotech., 22, 125201 (2011).
Lipomi D. J., M. Vosgueritchian , B. C-K.Tee, C. H. Fox, J. A. Lee, and Z. Bao. “Transparent, stretchable, electronic skin comprising silicone elastomers and carbon nanotubes,” (submitted, 2011).
Barman S. N., M. C. LeMieux, J. Baek, R. Rivera, and Z. Bao. “Effects of dispersion conditions of single-walled carbon nanotubes on the electrical characteristics of thin film network transistors.” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2, 2672–2678, doi: 10.1021/am1005223 (2010).
Opatkiewicz, J. P., M. C. LeMieux, and Z. Bao. “Influence of electrostatic interactions on spin assembled single-walled carbon nanotube networks on amine functionalized surfaces.” ACS Nano, 4, 1167–1177, doi:10.1021/nn901388 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn901388
Hellstrom, S. L., R. Z. Jin, R. M. Stoltenberg, and Z. Bao. “Driving high-performance n- and p-type organic transistors with carbon nanotube/conjugated polymer composite electrodes patterned directly from solution.” Adv. Mater. (Submitted, 2010).
Barman, S., LeMieux, M. C., Baek, J., Rivera, R., and Z. Bao. “Solution Processing Single Walled Nanotubes for Rational Design of Network Transistors,” (manuscript in progress, 2010).
Vosgueritchian, M., M. C. LeMieux, and Z. Bao. “Effect of Surface Chemistry on Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotube Network Thin Film Transistors,” (manuscript in progress, 2010.)
LeMieux, M. C., S. Sok, M. E. Roberts, J. P. Opatkiewicz, D. Liu, S. N. Barman, N. Patil, S. Mitra, and Z. Bao. “Solution assembly of organized carbon nanotube networks for thin-film transistors.” ACS Nano, 3, 4089–4097, doi:10.1021/nn900827v (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn900827v
Roberts, M. E., M. C. LeMieux, and Z. Bao. “Sorted and aligned single-walled carbon nanotube networks for transistor-based aqueous chemical sensors.” ACS Nano, 3, 3287–3293, doi:10.1021/nn900808b (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn900808b
Roberts, M. E., M. C. LeMieux, A. N. Sokolov, and Z. Bao. “Self-sorted nanotube networks on polymer dielectrics for low-voltage thin-film transistors.” Nano Letters, 9, 2526 – 2531, doi:10.1021/nl900287p (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl900287p
Hellstrom, S. L., H. W. Lee, and Z. Bao. “Polymer-assisted direct deposition of carbon nanotube bundle networks for high performance transparent electrodes.” ACS Nano, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 423–1430, doi:10.1021/nn9002456 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nn9002456

Updated January 2013