Fabrication of a 3-dimensional nanostructured binary colloidal crystal within a confined channel

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The reproducible fabrication of nanostructured 3Dimensional (3D) binary colloidal crystal (bCC) in a defined geometric space through a simple one step process is detailed. This method allows for the potential fabrication of a bCC in a sealed μchip within a defined area or channel by capillary forces, unlike other bCC formation methods such as dip-drawing, where the substrate must be submerged in a suspension to form a bCC, or bCC monolayers, which are fabricated at the water air interface. Through simple variation in volume fraction ratio (VF(S/L)) of nano-(denoted small, S) and macro-sized (denoted large, L) polystyrene (PS) spheres and diameter size ratio (D(S/L)), the manipulation of bCC structures was also achieved. Variation of nano-sized PS sphere number within the interstitial voids formed between neighbouring macro-sized spheres enabled the reproducible fabrication of LS2 and LS6 structures, which contain 1 and 3 nano-spheres respectively in each interstitial void. It must be noted that while VF(S/L) allows for control of the final LSn structure, thickness of bCC formation in this manner is independent of VFS/L.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:436

Enthalten in:

Journal of colloid and interface science - 436(2014) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 211-7

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Gorey, Brian [VerfasserIn]
Smyth, Malcolm R [VerfasserIn]
Morrin, Aoife [VerfasserIn]
White, Blánaid [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Binary colloidal crystal
Capillary packing
Colloids
Journal Article
Microfluidic channel
Nanostructured
Polystyrene
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 08.09.2015

Date Revised 02.12.2014

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcis.2014.08.032

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM242346332