Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces: towards surface nanopatterning
Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces: towards surface nanopatterning
The combination of lithographic methods and sol gel bottom-up techniques is a promising approach for nanopatterning substrates. The integration and scalable fabrication of such substrates are of great interest for the development of nanowire-based materials opening potentialities in new technologies. We demonstrate the deposition of ordered mesoporous silica into nanopatterned silica substrates by dip coating. Using scanning electron microscopy and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering, the effect of the sol composition on the pore ordering was probed. Optimising the sol composition using anodic alumina membranes as confined spaces, we showed how the pH controlled the transformation from circular to columnar mesophase. Vertical mesopores were obtained with very good repeatability. The effect of the sol chemistry on the surfactant curvature was then shown to be similar in nanopatterned substrates made by e-beam lithography.
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Soulé, Samantha
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Soulé, Samantha, Moehl, Gilles E., Huang, Ruomeng, Noori, Yasir J., Kiang, Kian Shen, Kees de Groot, C. H., Beanland, Richard, Smith, David C. and Hector, Andrew L.
(2022)
Confining the growth of mesoporous silica films into nanospaces: towards surface nanopatterning.
Nanoscale Advances, 4 (4), .
(doi:10.1039/d1na00654a).
Abstract
The combination of lithographic methods and sol gel bottom-up techniques is a promising approach for nanopatterning substrates. The integration and scalable fabrication of such substrates are of great interest for the development of nanowire-based materials opening potentialities in new technologies. We demonstrate the deposition of ordered mesoporous silica into nanopatterned silica substrates by dip coating. Using scanning electron microscopy and grazing incidence small angle X-ray scattering, the effect of the sol composition on the pore ordering was probed. Optimising the sol composition using anodic alumina membranes as confined spaces, we showed how the pH controlled the transformation from circular to columnar mesophase. Vertical mesopores were obtained with very good repeatability. The effect of the sol chemistry on the surfactant curvature was then shown to be similar in nanopatterned substrates made by e-beam lithography.
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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2022
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Published date: 21 February 2022
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The research work reported in this article was nancially supported by the ADEPT EPSRC programme grant (EP/N035437/1) and the EPSRC funding for the Smartlab (EP/K00509X/1 and EP/K009877/1).
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