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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 41, Issue 12, Pages 4560-4580Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cs15335a
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11074138, 50825206]
- Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [JQ201103]
- Taishan Scholars Program of Shandong Province
- National Key Basic Research Development Program of China (973 special preliminary study plan) [2012CB722705]
- HKUST [DAG.09/10.EG09, RPC11EG38]
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Semiconducting inorganic nanowires (NWs), nanotubes and nanofibers have been extensively explored in recent years as potential building blocks for nanoscale electronics, optoelectronics, chemical/biological/optical sensing, and energy harvesting, storage and conversion, etc. Besides the top-down approaches such as conventional lithography technologies, nanowires are commonly grown by the bottom-up approaches such as solution growth, template-guided synthesis, and vapor-liquid-solid process at a relatively low cost. Superior performance has been demonstrated using nanowires devices. However, most of the nanowire devices are limited to the demonstration of single devices, an initial step toward nanoelectronic circuits, not adequate for production on a large scale at low cost. Controlled and uniform assembly of nanowires with high scalability is still one of the major bottleneck challenges towards the materials and device integration for electronics. In this review, we aim to present recent progress toward nanowire device assembly technologies, including flow-assisted alignment, Langmuir-Blodgett assembly, bubble-blown technique, electric/magnetic-field-directed assembly, contact/roll printing, planar growth, bridging method, and electrospinning, etc. And their applications in high-performance, flexible electronics, sensors, photovoltaics, bioelectronic interfaces and nano-resonators are also presented.
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