Patent ID: 8859423

Claim:
A method, comprising: manufacturing a nanostructured electrode by providing a reusable mold having a pattern of nano-concavities corresponding to a desired pattern of nanofeatures; filling the mold with a polymer; heating the mold at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time period to produce a mold containing nanoarchitectured polymer comprising a plurality of convex nanofeatures corresponding to the pattern of nano-concavities; providing a coated substrate having a thin film of the polymer on a first surface of the substrate; contacting the thin film of the polymer on the substrate with the mold containing the nanoarchitectured polymer such that the nanoarchitectured polymer contacts and adheres to the coated substrate in the absence of adhesive materials; removing the mold, thereby transferring the nanoarchitectured polymer from the mold to the thin film of the polymer on the substrate; and depositing a first electrode material onto the nanoarchitectured polymer to form a continuous electrode coating, thereby producing the nanostructured electrode.