Potential use of fluorinated monolayers in materials science

Surface micelles of fluorinated amphiphiles have potential as templates for the elaboration of metallic nanodot arrays. Hexagonal arrays of gold and silver nanodots, a few nM in size, have been observed by AFM to form when a thin layer of metal was deposited through vacuum evaporation on a silicon wafer covered with hemimicelles of the F8H16 diblock (E. Charrault, P. Muller, M. Maaloum, M.P. Krafft, C. Petit, P. Petit, unpublished). 

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