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Cover Picture: Self‐Assembled Metal Oxide Bilayer Films with “Single‐Crystalline” Overlayer Mesopore Structure (Adv. Mater. 8/2007)
Author(s) -
Brezesinski T.,
Antonietti M.,
Smarsly B. M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200790029
Subject(s) - materials science , overlayer , bilayer , mesoporous material , nucleation , evaporation , adhesion , nanotechnology , monolayer , self assembly , nanoscopic scale , chemical engineering , composite material , membrane , chemistry , organic chemistry , biochemistry , physics , engineering , thermodynamics , catalysis
Mesoporous films with biaxial, “single‐crystalline” arrangements of spherical pores are obtained by “evaporation‐induced self‐assembly” (EISA) in work reported by Torsten Brezesinski, Markus Antonietti, and Bernd Smarsly on p. 1074. The films are dip‐coated onto a sublayer with sufficiently different surface tension and a specific nanoscale periodicity. Low adhesion to the sublayer surface results in a relatively small number of nucleation sites and a uniform orientation of the evolving mesostructure in the toplayer.