| Abstract Scope |
Carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons are exceptional semiconductors with the potential to outperform silicon in next-generation microelectronic devices while also enabling new flexible/stretchable formats for electronics due to their excellent mechanical resilience. However, new methods need to be developed to synthesize, assemble, process, and fabricate these nanomaterials. This presentation will highlight advances towards solving these challenges in two areas: (i) the large-area self-assembly of electronic-type sorted semiconducting carbon nanotubes into densely packed arrays of aligned nanotubes using interfacial self-assembly methods (1-3), and the integration of nanotubes into both high-performance static (1-3) and stretchable devices (4-5) and (ii) the bottom-up synthesis of semiconducting graphene nanoribbons as narrow as 2 nm with faceted armchair edges via chemical vapor deposition through control over the anisotropy of synthesis (6-8).
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