Evaporation-assisted patterning beyond random assembly

Date
2019-11-01
Authors
Duan, Chuanhua
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Chuanhua Duan. 2019. "Evaporation-assisted patterning beyond random assembly." National Science Review, Volume 6, Issue 6, pp. 1065 - 1066. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwz125
Abstract
Evaporation of solvent and the resulting fluid motion has been recognized as a simple but robust patterning method to yield self-assembled patterns of non-volatile solutes (e.g. microspheres, nanoparticles, bacteria, polymers, proteins, DNA, graphenes, etc.) on plain surfaces [1,2]. Such evaporation-assisted patterning could occur at small scales (O(mm^2)) by depositing and drying individual drops on surfaces, or at larger scales (O(cm^2)) by continuously moving an evaporating meniscus.
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