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Forces and interactions between nanoparticles for controlled structures
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Forces and interactions between nanoparticles for controlled structures
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Mark
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Paul R.
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Garofalini
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Steven
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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In recent years, structured nanomaterials have started to demonstrate their full potential in breakthrough technologies. However, in order to fulfill the expectations held for the field, it is necessary to carefully design these structures depending upon the targeted application. This tailoring process suggests that a feedback between theory and experiment could potentially allow us to obtain a structure as near optimum as possible. This thesis seeks to describe the theory and experiment needed to understand and control the interactions among nanoparticles to build a functional device for the efficient conversion of sunlight into energy. This thesis will discuss a simulation built from the existing theories explaining nanoparticle interactions and will present how its outcomes can be employed to describe real systems. The forces and dynamics of the nanoparticle system control the way their structure is formed. Thus, in order to understand and predict the formation of organized nanostructures, simulation of forces and dynamics and their corroboration with experimental results are necessary. These simulations will be extended to more complex systems, and the results will be used to provide a basis for the design of a specific nanoparticle structure, namely a linked linear chain. The envisioned application of the results achieved with the approach described is the design of a nanoparticle-based organic photovoltaic cell where linear chains of nanoparticles are tethered to the back of the device and then surrounded by a conducting polymer matrix to generate percolation pathways and improve light collection and scattering, and thus efficiency, of the device. To tether the chains in the cell, a foundation is needed to provide structure and control spacing. This foundation is designed and constructed by depositing gold nanoparticles on a substrate patterned using block-copolymer lithography to form a hexagonal array upon which the linear chains will be grown.
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Materials Science and Engineering
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xii, 125 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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by Paul R. Mark
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Nanoparticles
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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