Surfaces

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Surfaces Nanorods

• A quick survey of these heavy hitters
• Whitesides
• Alivisatos
• And one promising young investigator
• Velev

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Wilbur Whitesides mCP Review(see book by Timp,
Ch. 8)
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mCP Micro contact printing George Whitesides,
Harvard University
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Just scratch your self-assembled monolayer with a
razor knife!But is it nano?
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Patterning possibilities include massively
parallel detection, fly-eye lens, etc. But is it
nano?
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AlivisatosUC Berkeley
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• Schematic phase diagram
• from Tipton Russo
• Macromolecules, 29, 7402-11 (1996)

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Nanorod-Polymer composites
Science, 295, March 29, 2002
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The new tetrahedron to replace carbon?
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Who asked about the role of crystallography?
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The latest getting these tetrapods to organize
and align.
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VelevNorth Carolina State
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Is it nano? Well, nanoliters anyway.
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Latex coatings (left), Nanogold coating (right)
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References (other than already cited)

• Nanotechnology, edited by G. Timp
• Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998