Benzyl alcohol and block copolymer micellar lithography: A versatile route to assembling gold and in situ generated titania nanoparticles into uniform binary nanoarrays

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6355-6364

  Polleux, Julien ^a,b   Rasp, Matthias ^a   Louban, Ilia ^b,c   Plath, Nicole ^b,c   Feldhoff, Armin ^d   Spatz, Joachim P ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

binary nanoarrays; block copolymer micellar lithography; directed self assembly; in situ growth of nanoparticles; nonaqueous sol gel process

Indexed keywords

BENZYL ALCOHOL; BUILDING BLOCKES; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; GRAPHOEPITAXY; IN SITU GROWTH OF NANOPARTICLES; IN-SITU; MACROSCOPIC SCALE; NANO PATTERN; NANOARRAYS; NON-AQUEOUS; NON-AQUEOUS SOL-GEL METHOD; PARALLEL WIRES; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLY(VINYLPYRIDINE); POLYMER BLOCKS; RELATIVE LENGTH; SOLVENT EVAPORATION; TIO; TITANIA; TITANIA NANOPARTICLES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; COPOLYMERIZATION; GELS; GOLD; GOLD COATINGS; LITHOGRAPHY; MICELLIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; TOLUENE;

GOLD DEPOSITS;

BENZYL ALCOHOL; CHLORIDE; GOLD; GOLD DERIVATIVE; GOLD TETRACHLORIDE, ACID; METAL NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SOLVENT; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICELLE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PRINTING;

BENZYL ALCOHOL; CHLORIDES; GOLD; GOLD COMPOUNDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICELLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; PRINTING; SOLVENTS; TITANIUM;

EID: 80052057412     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn201470f     Document Type: Article

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