Journal article
Self-Assembly of Mesoscale Objects into Ordered Two-Dimensional Arrays
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.276(5310), pp.233-235
04/11/1997
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5310.233
PMID: 9092466
Abstract
Regular arrays of topologically complex, millimeter-scale objects were prepared by self-assembly, with the shapes of the assembling objects and the wettability of their surfaces determining the structure of the arrays. The system was composed of solid objects floating at the interface between perfluorodecalin and water and interacting by lateral capillary forces; patterning of the wettability of the surfaces of the objects directs these forces. Self-assembly results from minimization of the interfacial free energy of the liquid-liquid interface. Calculations suggest that this strategy for self-assembly can be applied to objects on a micrometer scale.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Self-Assembly of Mesoscale Objects into Ordered Two-Dimensional Arrays
- Creators
- Ned Bowden - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USAAndreas Terfort - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USAJeff Carbeck - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USAGeorge M Whitesides - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Vol.276(5310), pp.233-235
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.276.5310.233
- PMID
- 9092466
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- eISSN
- 1095-9203
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/11/1997
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry
- Record Identifier
- 9984216562002771
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