Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates
Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates
We report on directed self-assembly of ordered, vapor-deposited gallium nanoparticles on surface-relief-structured polymer substrates. Grating templates impose periodic order in one dimension, most effectively when the grating half-period is of order the mean unperturbed center-to-center particle spacing for a given mass-thickness of Ga. Self-organized order also emerges in the perpendicular direction as a consequence of the liquid-phase particles’ nucleation, growth and coalescence on the ridges of the grating pattern in relative isolation from the adjacent slots, and vice versa.
Waters, Robin, Francis
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Ohtsu, Akihiko
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Naya, Masayuki
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Hobson, Peter A.
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Waters, Robin, Francis
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Ohtsu, Akihiko
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Naya, Masayuki
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Hobson, Peter A.
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MacDonald, Kevin F.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Waters, Robin, Francis, Ohtsu, Akihiko, Naya, Masayuki, Hobson, Peter A., MacDonald, Kevin F. and Zheludev, Nikolay I.
(2016)
Templated assembly of metal nanoparticle films on polymer substrates.
Applied Physics Letters, 109 (26), [263105].
(doi:10.1063/1.4973202).
Abstract
We report on directed self-assembly of ordered, vapor-deposited gallium nanoparticles on surface-relief-structured polymer substrates. Grating templates impose periodic order in one dimension, most effectively when the grating half-period is of order the mean unperturbed center-to-center particle spacing for a given mass-thickness of Ga. Self-organized order also emerges in the perpendicular direction as a consequence of the liquid-phase particles’ nucleation, growth and coalescence on the ridges of the grating pattern in relative isolation from the adjacent slots, and vice versa.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 December 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 December 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/403857
ISSN: 0003-6951
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Masayuki Naya
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Peter A. Hobson
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