NanoIntegris

NanoIntegris Technologies, Inc.
Private
Industry Nanotechnology
Founded January 2007
Headquarters Boisbriand, Quebec
Website www.nanointegris.com

NanoIntegris is a nanotechnology company based in Boisbriand, Quebec specializing in the production of enriched, single-walled carbon nanotubes.[1] In 2012, NanoIntegris was acquired by Raymor Industries, a large-scale producer of single-wall carbon nanotubes using the plasma torch process.

The proprietary technology through which NanoIntegris creates their products spun out of the Hersam Research Group[2] at Northwestern University.[3]

Process

The process through which these technologies emerged is called Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation (DGU). DGU has been used for some time in biological and medical applications[4] but Dr. Mark Hersam utilized this process with carbon nanotubes which allowed for those nanotubes with semi-conductive properties to be separated from those with conductive properties. While the DGU method was the first one to convincingly produce high-purity semiconducting carbon nanotubes, the rotation speeds involved limit the amount of liquid, and thus nanotubes, that can be processed with this technology. NanoIntegris has recently licensed a new process using selective wrapping of semiconducting nanotubes with conjugated polymers.[5] This method is scalable thus enables the supply of this material in large quantities for commercial applications.

Products

Semiconducting SWCNT

Enriched Semiconducting carbon nanotubes (sc-SWCNT) using either a density-gradient ultracentrifugation (DGU) or a polymer-wrapping (conjugated polymer extraction(CPE)) method. While the DGU method is used to disperse and enrich sc-SWCNT in an aqueous solution, the CPE method disperses and enriches sc-SWCNT in non-polar aromatic solvents[6]

Conducting SWCNT

Enriched Conducting carbon nanotubes[7]

PlasmaTubes SWCNT

Highly graphitized single-wall carbon nanotubes grown using an industrial scale plasma torch. Nanotubes grown using a plasma torch display diameters, lengths and purity levels comparable to the arc and laser method. The nanotubes measure between 1 and 1.5 nm in diameter and between 0.3-5 microns in length.[8]

Pure and SuperPureTubes SWCNT

Highly purified carbon nanotubes. Carbon impurities and metal catalysts impurities below 3% and 1.5% respectively.[9]

PureSheets/Graphene

1-4+ layer graphene sheets obtained by liquid exfoliation of graphite[10]

HiPco SWCNT

Small-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes[11]

Applications

Field-Effect Transistors

Both Wang[12] and Engel[13] have found that NanoIntegris separated nanotubes "hold great potential for thin-film transistors and display applications" compared to standard carbon nanotubes. More recently, nanotube-based thin film transistors have been printed using inkjet or gravure methods on a variety of flexible substrates including polyimide [14] and polyethylene (PET) [15] and transparent substrates such as glass.[16] These p-type thin film transistors reliably exhibit high-mobilities (> 10 cm^2/V/s) and ON/OFF ratios (> 10^3) and threshold voltages below 5 V. Nanotube-enabled thin-film transistors thus offer high mobility and current density, low power consumption as well as environmental stability and especially mechanical flexibility. Hysterisis in the current-voltage curves as well as variability in the threshold voltage are issues that remain to be solved on the way to nanotube-enabled OTFT backplanes for flexible displays.

Transparent Conductors

Additionally, the ability to distinguish semiconducting from conducting nanotubes was found to have an effect on conductive films.[17]

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) can be made on a larger scale and at a lower cost using separated carbon nanotubes.[12]

High Frequency Devices

By using high-purity, semiconducting nanotubes, scientists have been able to achieve "record...operating frequencies above 80 GHz."[18]

Researchers Who Have Published Using NanoIntegris Materials

Chongwu Zhou[19]

Mark Hersam[17]

Bruce Weisman[20]

Craig E. Banks[21]

Fwu-Shan Sheu[22]

Peter John Burke[23]

Saiful I. Khondaker[24]

Martin Pumera[25]

Achim Hartschuh[26]

Lu-Chang Qin[27]

Phaedon Avouris,[28][29]

Ralph Krupke[29]

Jong-Hyun Ahn[30]

Partha Hazra[31]

Lain-Jong Li[32]

Menachem Elimelech[33]

Chad D. Vecitis[33]

Jonas I. Goldsmith[34]

Samuel Graham[35]

Robert C. Haddon[36]

References

  1. NanoIntegris Official Site
  2. Hersam Research Group
  3. Nanotechnology Now October 28th, 2008
  4. Application of Density Gradient Ultracentrifugation Using Zonal Rotors in the Large-Scale Purification of Biomolecules, Downstream Processing of Proteins, Volume 9: 6, Jan. 2000
  5. J. Ding et al. (2014) Enrichment of large-diameter semiconducting SWCNTs by polyfluorene extraction for high network density thin film transistors. Nanoscale,6, 2328-2339
  6. Semiconducting Nanotubes
  7. Conducting Nanotubes
  8. Purified Nanotubes
  9. PureSheets Graphene
  10. HiPco Nanotubes
  11. 1 2 Wang, C. et al. (2009) Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Separated Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors for Display Applications. Nano Lett., 2009, 9 (12), pp 4285–4291
  12. Engel, M. et al. (2008) Thin Film Nanotube Transistors Based on Self-Assembled, Aligned, Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Arrays. ACS Nano, 2008, 2 (12), pp 2445–2452
  13. C. Wang et al. (2012) Extremely Bendable, High-Performance Integrated Circuits Using Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Networks for Digital, Analog, and Radio-Frequency Applications. Nano Lett. 12, 1527−1533
  14. P. Heng Lau et al.(2013) Fully Printed, High Performance Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors on Flexible Substrates. Nano Lett. 13, 3864−3869
  15. F. Sajed and C. Rutherglen (2013) All-printed and transparent single walled carbon nanotube thin film transistor devices. Applied Physics Letters 103, 143303 (2013)
  16. 1 2 Green, A. and Hersam, M. (2008) Colored Semitransparent Conductive Coatings Consisting of Monodisperse Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Nano Lett., 2008, 8 (5), pp 1417–1422
  17. 80 GHz Field-Effect Transistors Produced Using High Purity Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
  18. Air-Stable Conversion of Separated Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors from p-Type to n-Type Using Atomic Layer Deposition of High-κ Oxide and Its Application in CMOS Logic Circuits
  19. Analyzing Absorption Backgrounds in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Spectra
  20. Graphene Electrochemistry: Surfactants Inherent to Graphene Can Dramatically Effect Electrochemical Processes
  21. Advances in Carbon Nanotube Based Electrochemical Sensors for Bioanalytical Applications
  22. Fundamental Limits on the Mobility of Nanotube-Based Semiconducting Inks
  23. Evaluating Defects in Solution-Processed Carbon Nanotube Devices via Low-Temperature Transport Spectroscopy
  24. The Electrochemical Response of Graphene Sheets is Independent of the Number of Layers from a Single Graphene Sheet to Multilayer Stacked Graphene Platelets
  25. Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Imaging of Localized Defects in Carbon Nanotubes
  26. Effects of Surfactants on Spinning Carbon Nanotube Fibers by an Electrophoretic Method
  27. The Polarized Carbon Nanotube Thin Film LED
  28. 1 2 IBM Group
  29. Flexible, Transparent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Transistors with Graphene Electrodes
  30. Solvation Dynamics of Coumarin 153 in SDS Dispersed Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes (SWNTs)
  31. Ultrasensitive Detection of DNA Molecules with High On/Off Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Network
  32. 1 2 Electronic-Structure-Dependent Bacterial Cytotoxicity of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
  33. Electrochemical Analysis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Functionalized with Pyrene-Pendant Transition Metal Complexes
  34. Evaluation of Transparent Carbon Nanotube Networks of Homogeneous Electronic Type
  35. Enhanced Electromodulation of Infrared Transmittance in Semitransparent Films of Large Diameter Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
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