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Stability and protection of nanowire devices in air

Show Author's Information Zhen He1,§,  Muhammad Hassan1,§,  Huan-Xin Ju2,  Rui Wang1,  Jin-Long Wang1,  Jia-Fu Chen1,  Jun-Fa Zhu2,  Jian-Wei Liu1( ),  Shu-Hong Yu1( )
Division of Nanomaterials & ChemistryHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the MicroscaleCollaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and TechnologyDepartment of ChemistryCAS Center for Excellence in NanoscienceHefei Science Center of CASUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026China
National Synchrotron Radiation LaboratoryUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026China

§ Zhen He and Muhammad Hassan contributed equally to this work.

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stability, tellurium, assembly, nanowires, protection, nanowire devices
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He Z, Hassan M, Ju H-X, et al. Stability and protection of nanowire devices in air. Nano Research, 2018, 11(6): 3353-3361. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1932-5
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Nanowire devices have attracted considerable attention because of their unique structure and novel properties, and have opened up significant development opportunities. However, not many studies have focused on their stability and durability under practical conditions, which limits the rapid development of real applications. Herein, we systematically investigate three different treatments, polymer coating, inert atmosphere protection, and thickness-induced self-protection, to protect the tellurium nanowire devices from oxidation when exposed to open air. The degree of oxidation was monitored by examining changes in the valence states of tellurium element and in the morphology of the nanowires. After the protective treatments, the tellurium nanowire devices showed improved stability and remained stable even after 800 days of storage. This work highlights the importance of investigating the stability of nanowire devices, especially for their practical applications.


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Stability and protection of nanowire devices in air

Show Author's information Zhen He1,§, Muhammad Hassan1,§, Huan-Xin Ju2, Rui Wang1, Jin-Long Wang1, Jia-Fu Chen1, Jun-Fa Zhu2, Jian-Wei Liu1( ), Shu-Hong Yu1( )
Division of Nanomaterials & ChemistryHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the MicroscaleCollaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and TechnologyDepartment of ChemistryCAS Center for Excellence in NanoscienceHefei Science Center of CASUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026China
National Synchrotron Radiation LaboratoryUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei230026China

§ Zhen He and Muhammad Hassan contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Nanowire devices have attracted considerable attention because of their unique structure and novel properties, and have opened up significant development opportunities. However, not many studies have focused on their stability and durability under practical conditions, which limits the rapid development of real applications. Herein, we systematically investigate three different treatments, polymer coating, inert atmosphere protection, and thickness-induced self-protection, to protect the tellurium nanowire devices from oxidation when exposed to open air. The degree of oxidation was monitored by examining changes in the valence states of tellurium element and in the morphology of the nanowires. After the protective treatments, the tellurium nanowire devices showed improved stability and remained stable even after 800 days of storage. This work highlights the importance of investigating the stability of nanowire devices, especially for their practical applications.

Keywords: stability, tellurium, assembly, nanowires, protection, nanowire devices

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Received: 07 October 2017
Revised: 15 November 2017
Accepted: 21 November 2017
Published: 22 May 2018
Issue date: June 2018

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Acknowledgements

We acknowledge the funding support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21431006, 21761132008, 51471157, and 21401183), the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21521001), Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH036), the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2014CB931800), and the Users with Excellence and Scientific Research Grant of Hefei Science Center of CAS (No. 2015-HSC-UE007). The Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS (No. 2014298), the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 1508085QB28) are acknowledged. This work was partially carried out at the USTC Center for Micro and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication. We thank all the team members at Catalysis and Surface Science Beamline of National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL).

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