Gas Phase Nanoxerographic Nanomaterial Integration

纳米材料是未来纳米技术器件的基本组成部分，通常使用溶液化学或气相化学制造，可以提供多种功能。然而，使用纳米材料作为构建模块需要新颖的集成概念，以实现超越单一设备级别的功能设备和系统的创建。该方案旨在发展一个平行的概念，使功能材料在表面上所需的位置集成。与之前液相组装的研究不同，本研究旨在开发气相纳米材料组装系统，该系统与pi先前的工作和大多数正在进行的基于溶液的打印方法的研究是正交的。在最近的蒙特卡罗模拟的支持下，PI提出了纳米照相印刷概念的发展，重点是气相过程和气溶胶在大气压力和中间真空下运行。计算分析预测，将纳米材料集成到10纳米以下的精度，并控制局部沉积的材料量是可能的。考虑到修订后的范围和预算，努力将集中在原始提案的主要目标上，即在实验中证明这一点。为实现这一目标，提出了新型纳米材料组装模块的设计。教育目标旨在促进跨学科的教育，并扩大到广泛的社区。同时开设新课程“纳米技术导论”。

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.