Nano LettersPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c00059
Alex Abelson,Philip M Jean-Remy,Tom Nakotte,Paul E Munger,Steven F Buchsbaum,Sei Jin Park,Anna M Hiszpanski
{"title":"Exploiting Intersubband Plasmons in Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Near-Infrared Electrochromic Windows.","authors":"Alex Abelson,Philip M Jean-Remy,Tom Nakotte,Paul E Munger,Steven F Buchsbaum,Sei Jin Park,Anna M Hiszpanski","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c00059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c00059","url":null,"abstract":"Optically transparent materials with switchable near-infrared (NIR) transmissivity are of significant interest for energy-saving smart window technologies. To this end, we demonstrate that semitransparent films of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) incorporated into electrochemically gated devices exhibit NIR transmittance changes up to 47% and bistable optical states that are appealing for low-power, large-area operation. The tunable NIR electrochromic response is driven by a doping-induced intersubband plasmon (ISBP) absorption, an optical feature in CNTs that is selective to light polarized perpendicular to the CNT axis. Vertically aligned CNT films (as opposed to more conventional planar CNT mats) thus allow us to isolate and study the ISBP resonance changes with applied voltage, electrode material, and film thickness.","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02081
Chen Liang,Ye Wang,Yiming Liu,Xiaoming Shi,Ji Ma,Wael Ben Taazayet,Qinghua Liang,Huayu Yang,Yuanyuan Fan,Jiafang Li,Congli He,Ying Fu,Houbing Huang,Jing Wang,Ce-Wen Nan
{"title":"Ferroelectric Charged Domain-Wall Synapse for Neuromorphic Computing.","authors":"Chen Liang,Ye Wang,Yiming Liu,Xiaoming Shi,Ji Ma,Wael Ben Taazayet,Qinghua Liang,Huayu Yang,Yuanyuan Fan,Jiafang Li,Congli He,Ying Fu,Houbing Huang,Jing Wang,Ce-Wen Nan","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02081","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by brain neural networks, integrated memory-computing devices are critical to meet the demands of big data and artificial intelligence. This work explores the quasi-continuous modulation of ferroelectric charged domain walls' conductance, which is confined in a topological quad-domain, allowing the charged domain walls to serve as neural synapses. The device mimics synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation and depression) and shows paired impulse facilitation. In a designed ferroelectric domain-wall neural network, we demonstrate multiplicative, accumulation-additive operations between the input image and the stored response matrix, capable of image processing functions, including triclassification with 100% accuracy. In the neural network simulation, the MINST database and the Cifar-10 database achieve 98.7% and 95.1% recognition rates. The sub-nanosecond polarization switching and the ultrathin (3-5 nm) charged domain walls position them as a promising platform for advancing ultrafast and scalable synaptic devices for low-power (potentially reduced to 0.2 aJ with sub-nanosecond pulse durations) neuromorphic computing systems.","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02804
Christoph Naderer, Dmitry Sivun, Stephan Haudum, Ian Teasdale, Jaroslaw Jacak
{"title":"3D Multiphoton Nanolithography with Bioresorbable Amino Acid-Based Resins.","authors":"Christoph Naderer, Dmitry Sivun, Stephan Haudum, Ian Teasdale, Jaroslaw Jacak","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02804","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrate that the newly designed amino acid phosphorodiamidate resins (APdA), containing vinyl reactive groups for polymerization, can be utilized to fabricate sub-100 nm features through 3D multiphoton lithography. We have quantitatively analyzed the feature size, Young's modulus, and functionalization of the nanostructures using atomic force and single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. Our results indicate that the polymer backbone, composed of either valine or alanine, imparts hydrophobic properties to the monomer, restricting the swelling of the polymeric nanostructure to 8% in aqueous environments. Despite minimal swelling, experiments revealed an up to 10-fold change of Young's modulus for dry versus wet conditions. To enhance the versatility of the APdA-based structures, we incorporated biotin functionalization and used it for the immobilization of extracellular vesicles. Hence, these findings highlight the potential of APdA-based nanolithography photoresists for biomedicine and nanotechnology applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144705793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nano LettersPub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03693
Wanzhuo Shi,Mengjiao Wang,Latha Venkataraman,John D Tovar
{"title":"Single-Molecule Conductance through Hybrid Radially and Linearly π-Conjugated Macromolecules Reveals an Unusual Intramolecular π-Interaction.","authors":"Wanzhuo Shi,Mengjiao Wang,Latha Venkataraman,John D Tovar","doi":"10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03693","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the design, synthesis, and single-molecule junction conductance of π-electron molecules bearing both radial and linear π-conjugation pathways, whereby cycloparaphenylene (CPP) radial cores are π-extended linearly with aryl alkyne substituents as models for previously reported CPP-arylene ethynylene conjugated polymers. Although radially and linearly conjugated molecules have been studied previously in isolation as junction-bridging molecular electronic units, this is the first study to examine molecules where both topologies are operative. Our results reveal that the presence of radial CPP components within the junction-spanning pathway leads to a reduction in the conductance of the backbone compared to model linear phenyl substituents. Through tight-binding and DFT-based calculations, we attribute this conductance change to intramolecular van der Waals (vdW) interactions between the CPP ring and the junction-spanning arylene-ethynylene molecular backbone. These interactions induce changes in the dihedral angles of the backbone, leading to a reduced overlap of π orbitals within the molecular junction.","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dmitry N. Dirin*, Alexander Wieczorek, Sebastian Siol*, Maksym V. Kovalenko* and Maryna I. Bodnarchuk,
{"title":"","authors":"Dmitry N. Dirin*, Alexander Wieczorek, Sebastian Siol*, Maksym V. Kovalenko* and Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, ","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53,"journal":{"name":"Nano Letters","volume":"25 29","pages":"XXX-XXX XXX-XXX"},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c03114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144678630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}