The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an electronic device, particularly a device including a flexible and/or low-cost substrate and/or carbon nanotubes, and also relates to electronic devices produced using said method. The method for manufacturing an electronic device, including a substrate mad of a material M and an active semiconductor material layer (3), includes the following steps: a) providing a carrier (10) made of an alkali metal salt or alkaline earth metal salt, preferably sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl); optionally, b) depositing a dielectric material layer (2) onto one surface of the carrier; c) forming an active semiconductor material layer (3) on one surface of the carrier when Step b) is not implemented or on the free surface of the layer when Step b) is implemented; d) forming different components of the electronic device on and/or under the layer; e) depositing a protective layer onto the layer stack, obtained in Step d), of the different components of the electronic device, said protective layer being made of the material M required for the substrate (1); and f) removing the carrier (10) by dissolving one or more of the components of said electronic device on a substrate different from the substrate (1). In said removal of the carrier, the method does not include any step for manufacturing one or more of the components of said electronic device on a substrate different from the substrate (1). The invention is of use in the field of electronics in particular.

A thermoelectric material includes a polymer matrix and a plurality of partially coated particles dispersed within the polymer matrix. Each particle of the plurality has a discontinuous coating of metal on a carbon-based material. A method includes dispersing functionalized particles comprising a carbon-based material in a solvent; providing a metal salt in the solvent; and forming a plurality of distinct metal volumes on a surface of the functionalized particles to form partially coated particles. The distinct metal volumes are thermally insulated from other volumes of the plurality. A composition of matter includes a discontinuous coating of metal on a surface of a carbon-based material. The carbon-based material is selected from the group consisting of graphene oxide and functionalized carbon nanotubes.

The invention relates to an optoelectronic component (10), comprising a carrier (1) and a plurality of nanorods (2), which are arranged on the carrier (1), wherein the nanorods (2) each comprise an active zone (2d). Furthermore, the optoelectronic component (10) comprises a potting compound (3), which is arranged on the carrier (1) and at least partially embeds the nanorods (2), and a structured metallization (5), which laterally surrounds the nanorods (2), wherein the nanorods (2) extend in a longitudinal direction N, the structured metallization (5) extends in a longitudinal direction M, and the longitudinal direction M of the structured metallization (5) extends transversely to the longitudinal direction N of the nanorods (2).

A method for producing the photoelectric conversion element includes, in carbon nanotubes including semiconducting carbon nanotubes having different chiralities from each other and metallic carbon nanotubes, changing a chirality distribution in the semiconducting carbon nanotubes, separating the carbon nanotubes into the semiconducting carbon nanotubes and the metallic carbon nanotubes after changing the chirality distribution, covering the semiconducting carbon nanotubes with a polymer after performing separating, and forming a photoelectric conversion film including the semiconducting carbon nanotubes between a pair of electrodes after performing covering with the polymer.

A bio-solar cell including: one or more photosynthetic complexes, each photosynthetic complex including one or more chlorophyll compounds and one or more components of Photosystem II; one or more carbon nanotubes upon which the one or more photosynthetic complexes are bound at a first region of the one or more carbon nanotubes; and a conductive substrate attached to a second region of the one or more carbon nanotubes.

A method of fabricating a carbon nanotube based device, including forming a trench having a bottom surface and sidewalls on a substrate, selectively depositing a bi-functional compound having two reactive moieties in the trench, wherein a first of the two reactive moieties selectively binds to the bottom surface, converting a second of the two reactive moieties to a diazonium salt; and reacting the diazonium salt with a dispersion of carbon nanotubes to form a carbon nanotube layer bound to the bottom surface of the trench.

The present invention relates to a nanovesicle comprising a heterodimeric G-protein coupled receptor, a method for preparing the nanovesicle, a field effect transistor-based taste sensor comprising the nanovesicle, and a method for manufacturing the taste sensor. The field effect transistor based taste sensor functionalized by the nanovesicle comprising the heterodimer G-protein coupled receptor according to the present invention has excellent sensitivity and selectivity and may highly specifically detect a sweet taste substance in real time, by using the heterodimeric G-protein coupled receptor and the nanovesicle comprising the same.

A pixelated electronic sensor is disclosed for imaging from infra-red to ultraviolet wavelengths, composed of a CMOS integrated circuit plus layers of nano-materials monolithically integrated via low temperature post-processing. Co-design, simulation, and integration methods for the device are described. Each pixel has color-resolved single photon sensitivity without dark counts and without inefficiency. The device operates at temperatures above 70? Kelvin. Current state of the art imagers that can color-resolve single photons are of bolometric or filter type. Bolometric devices must operate at temperature below 1? Kelvin and are limited to few pixels. Devices that use filters are inefficient as all the photons rejected by a filter are wasted. Single photon imagers that operate at non-cryogenic temperature (like Silicon Photomultipliers) have large dark counts typically measured in MHz/cm.sup.2. Imaging applications include astronomical telescopes, exoplanet imaging, distant galaxy imaging, microscopic imaging, medical devices, and hyperspectral imaging.

A biosensor includes a microfluidics layer, a transduction layer and a transceiver layer. The transduction layer further includes a functionalized layer that reacts with a biomarker, and a plurality of carbon nanotubes adjacent the functionalized layer. The conductivity of the carbon nanotubes changes in response to a biomarker reacting with at least a portion of the functionalized layer. The functionalized layer can include dendrimers, such as a tadpole dendrimer scaffolding that includes a plurality of sites for receiving receptors for biomarkers.

A method of fabricating a carbon nanotube based device, including forming a trench having a bottom surface and sidewalls on a substrate, selectively depositing a bi-functional compound having two reactive moieties in the trench, wherein a first of the two reactive moieties selectively binds to the bottom surface, converting a second of the two reactive moieties to a diazonium salt; and reacting the diazonium salt with a dispersion of carbon nanotubes to form a carbon nanotube layer bound to the bottom surface of the trench.