Nano-arrays

Ruiz A, Valsesia A, Bretagnol F et al (2007) Large-area protein nano-arrays patterned by soft lithography. Nanotechnology 18 1-6... 

Ma, Z.X., Kyotani, T., Liu, Z., Terasaki, O., and Tomita, A. Very high surface area microporous carbon with a three-dimensional nano-array structure Synthesis and its molecular structure. Chem. Mater. 13, 2001 4413-4415. 

Construction of Nano-Array Electrode Material for Amperometric Detection... 

The nano-array biosensor based on GOD-Ti02/Ti nanotube array electrode exhibits the reinforced current response in a bioelectrocatalysis and electro-reduction process, which can promote amperometric detection of glucose concentration with a high sensitivity and a low detection limit. In particular, such a nano-array biosensor based on GOD-Ti02/Ti nanotube array electrode can be potentially used for a better detection of somatic blood glucose for... 

Z. Ma, T. Kyotani, Z. Liu, O. Terasaki, and A. Tomita, Very High Surface Area Microporous Carbon with a Three-dimensional Nano-array Structure Synthesis and its Molecular Structure. Chem. Mater., 2001, 13, 4413 1415. 

Abdulhalim I (2007) Simplified optical scatterometry for periodic nano-arrays in the quasistatic limit. Appl Opt 46 2219-2229... 

In addition, traditional top-down nanofabrication methods such as focused ion beam (FIB], can be used to fabricate nanopore array electrodes [225], FIB milling thus represents a simple and convenient method for fabrication of prototype nanopore electrode arrays. These electrode nano-arrays can be used in electrochemical nanofabrication for applications in sensing and fundamental electrochemical studies. 

J. T. Xu, M. L5mch, J. L. Huff, C. Mosher, S. Vengasandra, G. F. Ding, and E. Henderson, Microfabricated quill-type surface patterning tools for the creation of biological micro/nano arrays, Biomed. Microdevices, 6,117-123 (2004). 

Cgo is extremely hydrophobic thus, some of the initial attempts to capture Cgo molecules were carried out in water. Qo forms a 1 2 complex with a cyclodextrin molecule. Liu et al. synthesized water-soluble double-CD 16 (Figure 7.10). End-to-end intermolecular inclusion complexation of Cgo with double-CD 16 led to the formation of a supramolecular polymer in water. An STM image of the polymer displayed the regular linear arrangement of the Cgo nano-array. TEM observation of the supramolecular polymer confirmed the presence of a linear structure with a length in the range of 150 to 250 nm, suggesting that the polymer consists of 60 to 80 units of the minimum component. 

Ling et al. [86]. showed that stable colloidal suspensions of Ceo and C70 in water were easily formed by mechanical grinding a mixture of Ceo or C70 with p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene (64) alone and/or with the zwitterionic 3-(l-methylimi-dazolium-3-yl)propane-l-sulfonate, or 3-(l-methyl-imidazolium-3-yl)butane-l-sulfonate, followed by ultrasonication after the addition of water. Yellow and brown solutions formed with Cso and C70 respectively, were found to contain nano-arrays of the fullerenes (40-130 nm in diam.) covered by a sheath of sulfonated calixarene, sulfonated imidazolium zwitterions or supermolecules of these two components. 

Another simple and straightforward technique makes use of immiscible solvent to form nano structures upon solvent evaporation at the interface. Using a floating technique on a liquid interface the particle arrays are transferred to almost any arbitrary substrate. These nano-arrays have been utilized as masks for vacuum deposition of metal cluster arrays, plasma etching, or as print masters. 

This chapter focuses on recent developments in the construction of supramo-lecular polymer-like ensembles incorporating [60]fullerene, including supramo-lecular polymers, nano-arrays and discrete assemblies of [60]fuUerene derivatives. These ensembles have been constmcted in various phases solid state, meso, solution and solid-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces. 

These above examples are characteristic of the construction of [GOjfuUerene nanoarrays using weak intermolecular forces in the solid state. ControlUng intermolecu-lar weak interactions has proven to be effective for the construction of selectively organized polymeric nano-arrays of [GOjfullerene molecules in the soUd state. 

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