title: Low-temperature fabrication of alkali metal-organic charge transfer complexes on cotton textile for optoelectronics and gas sensing.
abstract: A generalized low-temperature approach for fabricating high aspect ratio nanorod arrays of alkali metal-TCNQ (7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) charge transfer complexes at 140 °C is demonstrated. This facile approach overcomes the current limitation associated with fabrication of alkali metal-TCNQ complexes that are based on physical vapor deposition processes and typically require an excess of 800 °C. The compatibility of soft substrates with the proposed low-temperature route allows direct fabrication of NaTCNQ and LiTCNQ nanoarrays on individual cotton threads interwoven within the 3D matrix of textiles. The applicability of these textile-supported TCNQ-based organic charge transfer complexes toward optoelectronics and gas sensing applications is established.
authors.affiliation: NanoBiotechnology Research Laboratory, Centre for Advanced Materials and Industrial Chemistry, School of Applied Sciences, and ‡School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University , GPO Box 2476 V, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ramanathan
authors.forename: Sumeet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Walia
authors.forename: Ahmad Esmaielzadeh
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Kandjani
authors.forename: Sivacarendran
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Balendran
authors.forename: Mahsa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mohammadtaheri
authors.forename: Suresh Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bhargava
authors.forename: Kourosh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kalantar-zadeh
authors.forename: Vipul
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bansal
mesh_terms: D000468:Alkalies / Q000737:chemistry*; D003080:Cold Temperature; D032561:Cotton Fiber; D008670:Metals / Q000737:chemistry*; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D009930:Organic Chemicals / Q000737:chemistry*; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D013784:Textiles
chemical_list: D000468:Alkalies; D008670:Metals; D009930:Organic Chemicals