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PI: Ahmed Busnaina
Authors: Jason Small, Ahmed Busnaina
Presenters: Jason Small
Primary Contact: Jason Small
Primary Contact’s E-mail: small@coe.neu.edu
Primary Contact’s Phone: 617 373 3201

Nano-Transfer and Assembly

To move scientific discoveries from the laboratory to commercial products, we must address a different set of fundamental research issues, primarily those related to viable commercial scale-up of bottom-up assembly, production volumes, process robustness and reliability, and integration of nanoscale structures and devices into micro-, meso-, and macroscale products. High rate directed assembly of heterogeneous systems is one of the research areas needed for scale up of nano assembly processes. The use of nanotemplates has the potential to enable the directed assembly of nanoelements at high rates. By controlling the forces acting on the nano elements, such as carbon nanotubes, DNA and nanorods, on a template, they can be set in precise locations. This patterned array could be transferred over to a new substrate to build a device. By utilizing the forces acting on the nanoparticles, such as van der Waals, covalent, or hydrogen bonding, or the electrical double layer force, it is possible to control the precise assembly and arrangement of these nanoelements. Micro patterns have yielded good results with the arrangement of the particles on the templates. Preliminary field guided assembly experiments show the assembly of nanoparticles.