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From metal to carbon: structural properties and transport of new nanostructures

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Author(s):
Pedro Alves da Silva Autreto
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: Campinas, SP.
Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin
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Examining board members:
Douglas Soares Galvão; José Pedro Rino; Ricardo Wagner Nunes; Varlei Rodrigues; Kleber Roberto Pirota
Advisor: Douglas Soares Galvão
Abstract

Nanotechnology had its symbolical beginning at the 1959\'s Nobel Prize awarder Richard Feynman\'s lecture: \"There is Plenty of Roam at the Bottom\". In this lecture, Feynman highlights the possibilities of creating new materials, designed to have specific electronic and structural properties. Ever since, great advances have been made and structures never dreamed before have been detected and synthesized. These are composed of very many different materials, from metals to carbon. As an example of metal made compounds, we have the nanowires, the linear atomic chains and more recently the smallest silver nanotube. Carbon made compounds have also received great attention; a great example is the graphene. This made the theoretical tools become increasingly important, since they can help both in the characterization of the new structures and in forecasting new ones, how could them be produced, what would its geometry be, which conditions would be necessary for its formation and the other electronic properties. ln this context, we present in this thesis the study of new nanostructures, beginning with the factors that influence in the atomic linear chains formation in platinum nanowires stretching and how the temperature can be essential to explain the presence of anomalous distances in gold nanowires. Transport calculations have also been made to gold and silver nanowires, in arder to correlate possible geometries found in HRTEM experiments with the conductance profiles obtained in MCBJ experiments. Studies in the stretch evolution of silver nanowires proceed with the analysis of formation and electronic transport in the smallest square section nanotube made of silver. Formation and electronic structure if a carbon topologically identical to this silver nanotube was also suggested. Lastly, we studied the formation of graphane and fluorographane respectively by the hydrogenation and fluorination of graphene membranes (AU)