Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles Mediated by Polymers on the Planar Substrates

Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles Mediated by Polymers on the Planar Substrates 

Self-assembly of nanoparticles in well-ordered 2-D arrays represents a major goal in the fabrication of microelectronics devices (Sun et al. 2002, 2003). Different strategies have been developed to tackle the challenge of well-organized nanoparticles in a 2-D plate surface (Andres et al. 1996 Spatz et al. 2000). Schmid and coworkers (2000) reported a long-range ordered sulfonic acid functionalized nanoparticle array 

Transmission electron micrographs of (b) hexagonal and (c) cubic packing arrangements of nanoparticles. Reprinted with permission from Schmid et al. (2000). Copyright 2000 Wiley Inters cience. 

The formation of a patterned surface through selective segregation of nanoparticles onto one domain of a block copolymer film can be used to produce complex 2-D nanoparticle arrays in a controlled fashion. However, the resulting 

An orthogonally self-assembling method can be achieved by tailoring different functionalities on predefined regions of surfaces. Xu et al. (2006) demonstrated 

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