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ArticleNanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2020

Directed Self-Assembly of Polystyrene Nanospheres by Direct Laser-Writing Lithography.

Eleonora Cara, Federico Ferrarese Lupi, Matteo Fretto, Natascia De Leo, Mauro Tortello, Renato Gonnelli, Katia Sparnacci, Luca Boarino

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Article in Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

Eleonora CaraAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5981-9569
Federico Ferrarese LupiAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1055-8839
Matteo FrettoAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0053-6852
Natascia De LeoAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2154-1108
Mauro TortelloDipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9953-9000
Renato GonnelliDipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT), Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7108-8458
Katia SparnacciDipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica (DIST), Universitá del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro", INSTM, Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2102-9649
Luca BoarinoAdvanced Materials Metrology and Life Sciences Division, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1221-2591

Funding

European Association of National Metrology Institutes 16ENV07
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this work, we performed a systematic study on the effect of the geometry of pre-patterned templates and spin-coating conditions on the self-assembling process of colloidal nanospheres. To achieve this goal, large-scale templates, with different size and shape, were generated by direct laser-writer lithography over square millimetre areas. When deposited over patterned templates, the ordering dynamics of the self-assembled nanospheres exhibits an inverse trend with respect to that observed for the maximisation of the correlation length ξ on a flat surface. Furthermore, the self-assembly process was found to be strongly dependent on the height (H) of the template sidewalls. In particular, we observed that, when H is 0.6 times the nanospheres diameter and spinning speed 2500 rpm, the formation of a confined and well ordered monolayer is promoted. To unveil the defects generation inside the templates, a systematic assessment of the directed self-assembly quality was performed by a novel method based on Delaunay triangulation. As a result of this study, we found that, in the best deposition conditions, the self-assembly process leads to well-ordered monolayer that extended for tens of micrometres within the linear templates, where 96.2% of them is aligned with the template sidewalls.

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colloidal nanospheresdirected self-assemblydirect laser-writingnanospheres lithography

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PMID32045986
PMCPMC7075237

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