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Surface and Site‐Specific Ring‐Opening Metathesis Polymerization Initiated by Dip‐Pen Nanolithography
Author(s) -
Liu Xiaogang,
Guo Shouwu,
Mirkin Chad A.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200352309
Subject(s) - nanolithography , polymerization , ring opening metathesis polymerisation , materials science , nanotechnology , polymer , metathesis , dip pen nanolithography , nanostructure , nanoscopic scale , polymer chemistry , composite material , fabrication , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Arrays of nanoscale polymer brushes have been synthesized on both metallic and insulating substrates by a combination of dip‐pen nanolithography and surface‐initiated ring‐opening metathesis polymerization (see atomic force microscopy image). This approach provides control over patterned polymer feature size, brush length, and composition. The technique points towards a way of rapidly making combinatorial libraries of functional polymer nanostructures.