Issue 21, 2014

Classic, liquid, and matrix-assisted dip-pen nanolithography for materials research

Abstract

As a powerful atomic force microscopy-based nanotechnological tool, dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) has provided an ideal direct-write “constructive” lithographic tool that allows materials to be patterned from DPN tips onto a surface with high registration and sub-15 nm resolution. In the past few decades, DPN has been enormously developed for studying the patterning of inorganic, organic, and biological materials onto a variety of substrates. The focus of this review is on the development of three types of DPN: classic, liquid, and matrix-assisted DPN. Such development mainly includes the following aspects: the comparisons of three types of DPN, the effect factors and basic mechanisms of three types of DPN, and the application progress of three types of DPN.

Graphical abstract: Classic, liquid, and matrix-assisted dip-pen nanolithography for materials research

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
29 Jul 2014
Accepted
01 Sep 2014
First published
03 Sep 2014

Nanoscale, 2014,6, 12217-12228

Author version available

Classic, liquid, and matrix-assisted dip-pen nanolithography for materials research

J. Zhong, G. Sun and D. He, Nanoscale, 2014, 6, 12217 DOI: 10.1039/C4NR04296D

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements