Evaporative self-assembly of ordered complex structures
By: editor, Zhiqun Lin
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Singapore; Hackensack, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9789814304689
Subjects: Nanotechnology; Self-assembly (Chemistry)
Description: The use of spontaneous self-assembly, as a lithographic tool and as an external field-free means to construct well-ordered and intriguing patterns, has received much attention due to its ease of producing complex, large-scale structures with small feature sizes. An extremely simple route to highly-ordered, complex structures is the evaporative self-assembly of nonvolatile solutes (e.g., polymers, nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and DNA) from a sessile droplet on a solid substrate. To date, a few studies have elegantly demonstrated that self-organized nanoscale, microscale, and hierarchically--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.