Patent ID: 8084087

Claim:
A method of growing spatially-separated and size-controlled particles on substrate surfaces comprising: a. providing a modified layer to said substrate surface, using an ALD system; b. providing an ALD material for nanoparticle deposition; and c. inducing a Volmer-Weber growth method, wherein islands of said nanoparticles are formed on said surface, wherein said modified layer controls a number of nucleation sites on said surface, wherein controlling a number of ALD cycles limits an amount of deposited said material for discrete said nanoparticles, wherein said modified substrate layer comprises a mesh structure, wherein said mesh structure comprises bare nanosize openings in said modified substrate layer, whereas said openings comprise through-holes, pores or reactive sites, wherein said mesh is created by using microcontact printing to provide a pattern of terminated self-assembled monolayers (SAM's), wherein said terminated SAM's are selected from the group consisting of —CH 3 and —OH groups, wherein said ALD growth on said surface does not occur on said mesh structure.