Gas Phase Nanoxerographic Nanomaterial Integration

纳米材料是未来纳米技术设备的基石，最常见的是使用溶液化学或气相化学制造的，可以提供各种功能。然而，使用纳米材料作为构建模块，需要新的集成概念，以创建超越单个器件水平的功能器件和系统。该提案旨在开发一种并行概念，以使功能材料能够在表面上的所需位置处集成。与先前的液相组装工作不同，该提案旨在开发气相纳米材料组装系统，该系统与PI先前的工作和其他人对基于溶液的打印方法的大部分正在进行的研究正交。在最近的Monte Carlo模拟的支持下，PI提出了纳米静电印刷概念的发展，重点是在大气压和中等真空下运行的气相过程和气溶胶。计算分析预测，应该有可能以低于10 nm的精度整合纳米材料，并控制局部沉积的材料量。考虑到修订后的范围和预算，工作将集中在原始提案的主要目标上，即在实验中证明这一点。提出了新的纳米材料组装模块的设计来实现这一目标。教育目标旨在促进跨学科教育，并向广大社区推广。还将开设一门新课程-纳米技术入门课程。

Nanomaterials the building blocks of future nanotechnological devices are most commonly fabricated using solution chemistry or gas phase chemistry and can provide a variety of functions. The use of nanomaterials as building blocks, however, requires novel integration concepts to enable the creation of functional devices and systems that go beyond the single device level. This proposal aims at developing a parallel concept to enable the integration of functional materials at desired locations on a surface. Different from prior work on liquid phase assembly this proposal aims at developing gas-phase nanomaterial assembly systems, which are orthogonal the PIs prior work and most of the ongoing research by others on solution based printing methods. Supported by a recent Monte Carlo simulation the PI propose the development of Nanoxerographic printing concepts that focus on gas phase processes and aerosols that run at atmospheric pressure and intermediate vacuum. The computational analysis predicts that it should be possible to integrate nanomaterials with sub 10 nm precision and control over the amount of materials that is locally deposited. Considering the revised scope and budget the effort will center on the main goal of the original proposal which was to demonstrate this in experiment. The design of new nanomaterial assembly module is proposed to achieve this goal. The educational goal aims at fostering a cross-disciplinary education and outreach to a broad community. A new course Introductory Nanotechnology Course will be established as well.