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A Continuous Flow Device for the Purification of Semiconducting Nanoparticles by AC Dielectrophoresis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2014

Rustin Golnabi ,
Su (Ike) Chih Chi ,
Stephen L. Farias  and
Robert C. Cammarata
Rustin Golnabi
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Su (Ike) Chih Chi
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Stephen L. Farias
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
Robert C. Cammarata
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Abstract

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) have attracted significant attention as building blocks for future nanoscale electronics due to their small size and unique electronic properties. However, current SWCNT production techniques generate a mixture of two types of nanotubes with divergent electrical behaviors due to structural variations. Some of the nanotubes act as metallic materials while others display semiconducting properties. This random mixture has prevented the realization of functional carbon nanotube-based nanoelectronics. Here, a method of purifying a continuous flow of semiconducting nanotubes from an initially random mixture of both metallic and semiconducting SWCNTs in suspension is presented. This purification uses A/C dielectrophoresis (DEP), and takes advantage of the large difference of the relative dielectric constants between metallic and semiconducting SWCNTs. Because of a difference in magnitude and opposite directions of a dielectrophoretic force imposed on the random SWCNT solution, metallic SWCNTs deposit onto an electrode while semiconducting SWCNTs remain in suspension [3]. A discussion of these techniques is presented, along with a dielectrophoretic force-utilized microfluidic lab-on-a-chip device that can accomplish purification of semiconducting nanoparticles at high processing rates. The effectiveness of the device is characterized using Raman spectroscopy analysis on separated samples.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1700: Symposium MM – Nanotubes and Related Nanostructures--2014 , 2014 , pp. 85 - 90
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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