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Capillary Forming: Diverse 3D Microarchitectures Made by Capillary Forming of Carbon Nanotubes (Adv. Mater. 39/2010)
Author(s) -
De Volder Michael,
Tawfick Sameh H.,
Park Sei Jin,
Copic Davor,
Zhao Zhouzhou,
Lu Wei,
Hart A. John
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201090127
Subject(s) - materials science , capillary action , carbon nanotube , nanotechnology , lithography , bent molecular geometry , planar , microstructure , optoelectronics , composite material , computer science , computer graphics (images)
The cover shows an assembly of carbon nanotube (CNT) microstructures made by capillary forming, a new technique that enables local transformation of vertically aligned filaments into complex 3D microarchitectures. On page 4384 , Michael De Volder, Sameh Tawfick, A. John Hart, and coworkers describe their use of capillary forming to fashion diverse CNT microstructures having sloped, bent, and twisted geometries, and multidirectional textures. Capillary forming combines the scalability of planar lithography with the local specificity of self‐assembly, paving the way for use in a new generation of 3D microsystems and multifunctional surfaces.