Physical and Chemical Manipulation of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Nanoelectronics by

The electron confinement for the carbon nanomaterials provides them unusual electronic, mechanical and optical properties making them one of the best suited materials for electronic and sensor applications. However, the practical realization of nano-scale electronics faces two major challenges: their assembly into functional circuit and the precise engineering of these building blocks. Physical and chemical manipulation methods need to be developed to address these issues. However, due to the extremely small size of these nanomaterials, it is very hard to manipulate them both physically and chemically. Research work of this thesis is motivated to understand and design physical and chemical manipulation methods for these nanostructures. This dissertation is concerned with two main topics on manipulation of carbon nanomaterials: First, the problem of the top-down, parallel placement of anisotropic nanoparticles and secondly, chemical manipulation via controlled chemical functionalization.