title: Tailored single-walled carbon nanotube--CdS nanoparticle hybrids for tunable optoelectronic devices.
abstract: The integration of organic and inorganic building blocks into novel nanohybrids is an important tool to exploit innovative materials with desirable functionalities. For this purpose, carbon nanotube--nanoparticle nanoarchitectures are intensively studied. We report here an efficient noncovalent chemical route to density-controllably and uniformly assemble single-walled carbon nanotubes with CdS nanoparticles. The methodology not only promises the resulting hybrids will be solution-processable but also endows the hybrids with distinct optoelectronic properties including tunable photoresponse mediated by amine molecules. On the basis of these merits, reliable thin-film photoswitches and light-driven chemical sensors are demonstrated, which highlights the potential of tailored hybrids in the development of new tunable optoelectronic devices and sensors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA. xianglongli@lanl.gov
authors.forename: Xianglong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: Anyuan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cao