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Fast Fabrication of Large‐Area, Nanostructured Arrays from Polymers or Carbon Nanotubes by Wet‐Processing
Author(s) -
FraleoniMorgera Alessandro
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201001281
Subject(s) - sublimation (psychology) , carbon nanotube , materials science , fabrication , nanotechnology , polymer , nanostructure , composite material , psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , medicine , psychotherapist
A novel, fast, and low‐cost method for fabricating large‐area arrays of organic‐material‐based filamentary nanostructures is presented. The technique, auxiliary solvent‐based sublimation‐aided nanostructuring (ASB‐SANS), only takes minutes and exploits a templating matrix easily removable by sublimation. Proof‐of‐concept patterns fabricated out of poly(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are demonstrated.