title: Fabricating sub-100nm conducting polymer nanowires by edge nanoimprint lithography.
abstract: In this paper, a convenient and universal strategy is reported to fabricate high-resolution conducting polymer nanowires, combining edge nanoimprinting with gas etching. Based on this method, 81.3nm polypyrrole nanowires were obtained, which is much smaller than the original cavity. The resulting conducting polymer nanowires exhibit representative ohmic behavior and excellent sensitivity to NH3. This method may potentially be used to construct other organic nanoelectronic devices.
authors.affiliation: National Engineering Laboratory for Cereal Fermentation Technology, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China; The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China. Electronic address: wangdwjnu@sina.com.
authors.forename: Dawei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: The Key Laboratory of Food Colloids and Biotechnology, Ministry of Education, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122 Wuxi, China.
authors.forename: Caihua
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.affiliation: Physikalisches Institut and Center for Nanotechnology (C198eNTech), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany. Electronic address: chi@uni-muenster.de.
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chi
keywords: Edge nanoimprint; Nanowires; Polypyrrole; Sensor