Micro-and nanopatterning by lithographically controlled wetting

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1668-1676

  Cavallini, Massimiliano ^a,b   Gentili, Denis ^a   Greco, Pierpaolo ^b   Valle, Francesco ^a   Biscarini, Fabio ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Scriba Nanotecnologie   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPACT DISK; FORCE; LITHOGRAPHICALLY CONTROLLED WETTING; MATERIALS; MICROPATTERNING; MICROSCOPY; NANOPATTERNING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUTE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CAPILLARY ACTION; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84866094147     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.094     Document Type: Article

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