Surfaces & Nanorods

A quick survey of these heavy hitters:WhitesidesAlivisatos

And one promising young investigator:Velev

Wilbur & Whitesides CP Review

(see book by Timp, Ch. 8)

CP = Micro

contact printing: George

Whitesides, Harvard University

Just scratch your self-assembled monolayer with a razor knife!

But is it nano?

Hydrophilic

Hydrophobic

Patterning;

possibilities

include massively parallel detection, fly-eye

lens, etc. But is it nano?

Alivisatos—UC Berkeley

T

Iso LC

S1

P1

LL1

S2

LL2

P2

Schematic phase diagram from Tipton & RussoMacromolecules, 29, 7402-11 (1996)

Nanorod-Polymer “composites”

Science, 295, March 29, 2002

The new tetrahedron to replace carbon?

Who asked about the role of crystallography?

The latest: getting these tetrapods to organize and

align.

Velev—North Carolina State

Is it nano? Well, nanoliters anyway.

Latex coatings (left), Nanogold coating (right)

References (other than already cited)

Nanotechnology, edited by G. TimpSpringer-Verlag, New York, 1998