Nanoscale ear drum: Graphene based nanoscale sensors

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Beitragende

Abstract

The difficulty in determining the mass of a sample increases as its size diminishes. At the nanoscale, there are no direct methods for resolving the mass of single molecules or nanoparticles and so more sophisticated approaches based on electromechanical phenomena are required. More importantly, one demands that such nanoelectromechanical techniques could provide not only information about the mass of the target molecules but also about their geometrical properties. In this sense, we report a theoretical study that illustrates in detail how graphene membranes can operate as nanoelectromechanical mass-sensor devices. Wide graphene sheets were exposed to different types and amounts of molecules and molecular dynamic simulations were employed to treat these doping processes statistically. We demonstrate that the mass variation effect and information about the graphene-molecule interactions can be inferred through dynamical response functions. Our results confirm the potential use of graphene as a mass detector device with remarkable precision in estimating variations in mass at the molecular scale and other physical properties of the dopants.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)3168-3174
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftNanoscale
Jahrgang4
Ausgabenummer10
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2012
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

WOS 000303604000028
PubMed 22504575
Scopus 84860759760

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Dynamics, Sheets, Resonators, Program, Films, Field