Advances in top–down and bottom–up surface nanofabrication: Techniques, applications & future prospects

A Biswas, IS Bayer, AS Biris, T Wang, E Dervishi… - Advances in colloid and …, 2012 - Elsevier
This review highlights the most significant advances of the nanofabrication techniques
reported over the past decade with a particular focus on the approaches tailored towards the …

25th anniversary article: chemically modified/doped carbon nanotubes & graphene for optimized nanostructures & nanodevices

UN Maiti, WJ Lee, JM Lee, Y Oh, JY Kim… - Advanced …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Outstanding pristine properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene have limited the scope
for real‐life applications without precise controllability of the material structures and …

[HTML][HTML] Highly conductive tissue-like hydrogel interface through template-directed assembly

J Chong, C Sung, KS Nam, T Kang, H Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, conductive hydrogels have received great attention as tissue-
interfacing electrodes due to their soft and tissue-like mechanical properties. However, a …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Block PolymersPure Potential

CM Bates, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
Block polymers have undergone extraordinary evolution since their inception more than 60
years ago, maturing from simple surfactants to an expansive class of macromolecules …

Block copolymer lithography

CM Bates, MJ Maher, DW Janes, CJ Ellison… - …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This Perspective addresses the current state of block copolymer lithography and identifies
key challenges and opportunities within the field. Significant strides in experimental and …

Functional block copolymers: nanostructured materials with emerging applications

FH Schacher, PA Rupar… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in polymer synthesis have significantly enhanced the ability to rationally
design block copolymers with tailored functionality. The self‐assembly of these …

Directed self-assembly of block copolymers: a tutorial review of strategies for enabling nanotechnology with soft matter

H Hu, M Gopinadhan, CO Osuji - Soft matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of soft materials is broadly considered an attractive means of generating
nanoscale structures and patterns over large areas. However, the spontaneous formation of …

Block copolymer nanopatterning for nonsemiconductor device applications

GG Yang, HJ Choi, KH Han, JH Kim… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Block copolymer (BCP) nanopatterning has emerged as a versatile nanoscale fabrication
tool for semiconductor devices and other applications, because of its ability to organize well …

Method to provide a patterned orientation template for a self-assemblable polymer

TT Nguyen, JM Finders, WSMM Ketelaars… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A graphoepitaxy template to align a self-assembled block polymer adapted
to self-assemble into a 2-D array having parallel rows of discontinuous first domains …

Block copolymer based nanostructures: materials, processes, and applications to electronics

HC Kim, SM Park, WD Hinsberg - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Block copolymers have attracted increasing interest due to their ability to self-organize at
nanometer scales. 1-18 When the strength of the repulsive interaction between blocks is …