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Effect of Atomic Interconnects on Percolation in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Networks
The formation of covalent bonds to
single-walled carbon nanotube
(SWNT) or graphene surfaces usually leads to a decrease in the electrical
conductivity and mobility as a result of the structural rehybridization
of the functionalized carbon atoms from sp<sup>2</sup> to sp<sup>3</sup>. In the present study, we explore the effect of metal deposition
on semiconducting (SC-) and metallic (MT-) SWNT thin films in the vicinity of the percolation threshold and
we are able to clearly delineate the effects of weak physisorption,
ionic chemisorption with charge transfer, and covalent hexahapto (η<sup>6</sup>) chemisorption on these percolating networks. The results
support the idea that for those metals capable of forming bis-hexahapto-bonds,
the generation of covalent (η<sup>6</sup>-SWNT)ÂMÂ(η<sup>6</sup>-SWNT) interconnects provides a conducting pathway in the
SWNT films and establishes the transition metal bis-hexahapto organometallic
bond as an electronically conjugating linkage between graphene surfaces