When lithography meets self-assembly: a review of recent advances in the directed assembly of complex metal nanostructures on planar and textured surfaces

RA Hughes, E Menumerov, S Neretina - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the foremost challenges in nanofabrication is the establishment of a processing
science that integrates wafer-based materials, techniques, and devices with the …

Liquid-state dewetting of pulsed-laser-heated nanoscale metal films and other geometries

L Kondic, AG González, JA Diez… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Metal films of nanoscale thickness, deposited on substrates and exposed to laser heating,
provide systems that involve several interesting multiphysics effects. In addition to fluid …

Fabrication of Ag-Au bimetallic nanoparticles by laser-induced dewetting of bilayer films

Y Oh, J Lee, M Lee - Applied Surface Science, 2018 - Elsevier
We here show that Ag-Au bimetallic nanoparticles (NPs) can be produced by dewetting an
Ag/Au bilayer film coated on glass using a nanosecond-pulsed laser beam. Elemental …

Optically programmable Plateau–Rayleigh instability for high-resolution and scalable morphology manipulation of silver nanowires for flexible optoelectronics

GS Liu, M He, T Wang, L Wang, Z He… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The ability to engineer microscale and nanoscale morphology upon metal nanowires (NWs)
has been essential to achieve new electronic and photonic functions. Here, this study …

Numerical and analytical study of the impinging and bouncing phenomena of droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces with microtextured structures

Y Quan, LZ Zhang - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
The dynamics of droplets impinging on different microtextured superhydrophobic surfaces
are modeled with CFD combined with VOF (Volume of Fluid) technique. The method is …

Arrays of highly complex noble metal nanostructures using nanoimprint lithography in combination with liquid-phase epitaxy

E Menumerov, SD Golze, RA Hughes, S Neretina - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Current best-practice lithographic techniques are unable to meet the functional requirements
needed to enable on-chip plasmonic devices capable of fully exploiting nanostructure …

Dewetted nanostructures of gold, silver, copper, and palladium with enhanced faceting

AS Preston, RA Hughes, TB Demille, VMR Davila… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
At the foundation of nanoscience and nanotechnology is the ability to shape-engineer
nanometric objects so as to exert control over their physical and chemical properties …

Hierarchical nanoparticle ensembles synthesized by liquid phase directed self-assembly

JD Fowlkes, NA Roberts, Y Wu, JA Diez… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A liquid metal filament supported on a dielectric substrate was directed to fragment into an
ordered, mesoscale particle ensemble. Imposing an undulated surface perturbation on the …

Bioinspired Plateau–Rayleigh Instability on Fibers: From Droplets Manipulation to Continuous Liquid Films

Y Li, Z Shi, B Xu, L Jiang, H Liu - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Plateau–Rayleigh instability (PRI) of a liquid column, which always
spontaneously breaks into droplets to minimize surface energy, underlies a variety of …

Templated solid‐state dewetting of thin silicon films

M Naffouti, T David, A Benkouider, L Favre, A Delobbe… - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Thin film dewetting can be efficiently exploited for the implementation of functionalized
surfaces over very large scales. Although the formation of sub‐micrometer sized crystals via …