Inorganic molecular-scale MoSI nanowire-gold nanoparticle networks exhibit self-organized critical self-assembly

Jure Strle; Damjan Vengust; Dragan Mihailovic

doi:10.1021/nl8035096

Inorganic molecular-scale MoSI nanowire-gold nanoparticle networks exhibit self-organized critical self-assembly

Nano Lett. 2009 Mar;9(3):1091-5. doi: 10.1021/nl8035096.

Authors

Jure Strle¹, Damjan Vengust, Dragan Mihailovic

Affiliation

¹ Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Mo6 d.o.o., Teslova 30, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

PMID: 19199756
DOI: 10.1021/nl8035096

Abstract

We investigate for the first time the topological characteristics of large molecular-scale inorganic networks self-assembled in solution using the unique sulfur-bonding chemistry of conducting MoSI molecular wires and gold nanoparticles (GNPs). The network self-assembly is shown to display power-law distribution of graph edges, indicating an intrinsic tendency to self-organize into scale-invariant critical state, without any external control parameter. We discuss the electronic transport properties of such networks particularly with regard to the possibility of data processing.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't