Assembly of mesoscale objects into ordered two-dimensional arrays

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5310, 1997, Pages 233-235

  Bowden, Ned ^a   Terfort, Andreas ^a   Carbeck, Jeff ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; ENERGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; WETTABILITY;

EID: 0030901567     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5310.233     Document Type: Article

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19. We thank M. Mammen for helpful comments and suggestions. Funded by NSF grant CHE-9122331, the Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. N.B. was supported by a predoctoral fellowship from the Department of Defense. A.T. thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for a research grant.