Nanoscale rippling on polymer surfaces induced by AFM manipulation

• Mario D’Acunto,
• Franco Dinelli and
• Pasqualantonio Pingue

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2278–2289, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.234

• therefore of polymer nanomanipulation requires a precise knowledge of all the parameters involved in the process. With the increasing number of observations, various models have been put forward to explain the occurrence of the nanopatterns. The main mechanisms proposed for nanopatterning induced by means

Electrochemical coating of dental implants with anodic porous titania for enhanced osteointegration

• Amirreza Shayganpour,
• Alberto Rebaudi,
• Pierpaolo Cortella,
• Alberto Diaspro and
• Marco Salerno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 2183–2192, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.224

• anodic porous titania (APT). APT is usually of interest for applications in catalysis or optoelectronics [7]. Here we present its use as a coating for nanopatterning the surfaces of dental implants. One advantage of APT for applications in biomedicine is with respect to its analogue obtained on Al

• arrays are not necessary [9]. A single anodization is sufficient and from this perspective, may represent a simple and inexpensive nanopatterning procedure for biomedical Ti. In fact, the application of nanoporous oxides as biological surfaces (where living cells should adhere and grow) has been already

• fully understood yet, but is a well-known phenomenon [13][14][15]. In extreme synthesis, a nanorough substrate with possible adhesion/growth factors mimics the extracellular matrix [16]. Since Ti is used for most permanent implants, interest in nanopatterning biomedical surfaces with anodization has

Self-assembly of nanostructures and nanomaterials

• Isabelle Berbezier and
• Maurizio De Crescenzi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1397–1398, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.144

• construction. Research on self-assembled nanostructures encompasses fundamental issues in chemical synthesis, crystal growth and self-organization of 0D, 1D and 2D nanostructures, nanopatterning, lithographic techniques, nanocharacterization, scaling of materials properties down to molecular dimensions

• of nanostructures at the nanoscale including: large-scale patterning obtained by spontaneous structuring as well as local probe nanopatterning for nanostructure size and position control; theoretical and experimental efforts dedicated to a better understanding of the formation, evolution, and

Boosting the local anodic oxidation of silicon through carbon nanofiber atomic force microscopy probes

• Gemma Rius,
• Matteo Lorenzoni,
• Soichiro Matsui,
• Masaki Tanemura and
• Francesc Perez-Murano

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 215–222, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.20

• of field-induced, chemical process efficiency. Keywords: carbon nanofiber; dynamic mode; local anodic oxidation; nanopatterning; Introduction Scanning probe lithography (SPL) is increasing its relevance among currently employed methods towards miniaturization and investigations at the nanometer

• the tip material combines to better regulate the oxidation process. Clearly correlated behaviors have been investigated and confirmed for CNT-based LAO-AFM [26][27]. Conclusion CNF-AFM probes have been tested for the first time as a tool for nanopatterning based on LAO-AFM in the amplitude modulation

Towards bottom-up nanopatterning of Prussian blue analogues

• Virgile Trannoy,
• Marco Faustini,
• David Grosso,
• Sandra Mazerat,
• François Brisset,
• Alexandre Dazzi and
• Anne Bleuzen

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1933–1943, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.204

• . Keywords: nanopatterning; nanoperforated oxide monolayer; Prussian blue analogues; Introduction The development of methods to place nanoparticles into spatially well-defined, ordered arrays is one challenging aspect of nanotechnology. This is usually achieved by using top-down approaches, implementing

Near-field photochemical and radiation-induced chemical fabrication of nanopatterns of a self-assembled silane monolayer

• Ulrich C. Fischer,
• Carsten Hentschel,
• Florian Fontein,
• Linda Stegemann,
• Christiane Hoeppener,
• Harald Fuchs and
• Stefanie Hoeppener

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1441–1449, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.156

• fluorescence quenching at sites of metal contact could not be recognized). For the processes 2 and 3, oxygen plasma and UV–ozone nanopatterning, as outlined in Figure 3a, and described in more detail in the Experimental section, the embedded mask 2 was transferred from the glass substrate onto a SAM (e.g., an

• were explored: 1) a photochemical process, in which chemical nanopatterning is achieved by selective photochemical bleaching of a monolayer of dye molecules chemically bound to an APTES SAM; 2) a chemical process by oxygen-plasma etching as well as 3) a combined UV-photochemical and ozone-induced

Topology assisted self-organization of colloidal nanoparticles: application to 2D large-scale nanomastering

• Hind Kadiri,
• Serguei Kostcheev,
• Daniel Turover,
• Rafael Salas-Montiel,
• Komla Nomenyo,
• Anisha Gokarna and
• Gilles Lerondel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1203–1209, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.132

• , Cedex, France SILSEF SAS, 382 Rue Louis Rustin, Archamps Technopole, 74160 Archamps, France 10.3762/bjnano.5.132 Abstract Our aim was to elaborate a novel method for fully controllable large-scale nanopatterning. We investigated the influence of the surface topology, i.e., a pre-pattern of hydrogen

DNA origami deposition on native and passivated molybdenum disulfide substrates

• Xiaoning Zhang,
• Masudur Rahman,
• David Neff and
• Michael L. Norton

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 501–506, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.58

• expand, the functional diversity of other materials [3]. The nanopatterning technologies of DNA origami structures allow for the lithographic transfer of a wide range of spatial information to other surfaces [3], enable the organized placement of nanoparticles [4] and receptors for the capture of

Energy-related nanomaterials

• Paul Ziemann and
• Alexei R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 678–679, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.76

• energy savings and a significant decrease of the worldwide CO2 emission [1]. It is noteworthy that the nanopatterning of surfaces and interfaces to reduce friction by tailoring their wettability and anti-fouling behavior is often guided by mimicking nature [2][3]. Contributions of advanced materials

Mapping of plasmonic resonances in nanotriangles

• Simon Dickreuter,
• Julia Gleixner,
• Andreas Kolloch,
• Johannes Boneberg,
• Elke Scheer and
• Paul Leiderer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 588–602, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.66

• around 10 nm. Yet nanopatterning by near-field ablation with femtosecond pulses and the related formation of a nanoscale plasma appears as a novel route for certain applications in biology and medicine, where a chemical patterning of a substrate on scales well below optical wavelengths is of interest

Functionalization of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes

• Eloise Van Hooijdonk,
• Carla Bittencourt,
• Rony Snyders and
• Jean-François Colomer

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 129–152, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.14

• ]. The use of other lithographic techniques such as soft-lithographic approach [57] or e-beam lithography [58], to pattern VA-CNTs, have been reported. The soft-lithographic approach consists of micro- or nanopatterning processes mainly using two methods applied for aligned carbon nanotubes: microcontact

Sub-10 nm colloidal lithography for circuit-integrated spin-photo-electronic devices

• Adrian Iovan,
• Marco Fischer,
• Roberto Lo Conte and
• Vladislav Korenivski

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 884–892, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.98

• integration into spin-photo-electronic devices. Electron-beam and focused-ion-beam techniques are typically limited to feature sizes of tens of nanometres, if the features are to be well defined, and are rather inefficient for large-area nanopatterning since both methods employ series point-by-point pattern

Reversible mechano-electrochemical writing of metallic nanostructures with the tip of an atomic force microscope

• Christian Obermair,
• Marina Kress,
• Andreas Wagner and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 824–830, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.92

• equilibrium is applied, i.e., no further deposition and no further dissolution occurs. Subsequently, AFM contact-mode imaging of the resulting structures is performed, i.e., nanopatterning and AFM imaging are performed with one and the same tip in situ within the electrolyte. This process has the advantage

The morphology of silver nanoparticles prepared by enzyme-induced reduction

• Henrik Schneidewind,
• Thomas Schüler,
• Katharina K. Strelau,
• Karina Weber,
• Dana Cialla,
• Marco Diegel,
• Roland Mattheis,
• Andreas Berger,
• Robert Möller and
• Jürgen Popp

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 404–414, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.47

• enzymatic growth, is the simple preparation from a wet solution instead of by using vacuum deposition techniques, such as evaporation to fabricate rough metal films, or complicated top-down methods of micro- or nanopatterning of previously deposited thin metal films. This simplicity can help to extend the

Parallel- and serial-contact electrochemical metallization of monolayer nanopatterns: A versatile synthetic tool en route to bottom-up assembly of electric nanocircuits

• Jonathan Berson,
• Assaf Zeira,
• Rivka Maoz and
• Jacob Sagiv

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 134–143, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.14

• specimens are pressed together with a force of about 100 N in a water-saturated atmosphere (RH 100%). Deposited silver dots were removed (Figure 2) by immersion in HNO3/H2O (20% v/v) for ~3 h followed by rinsing with pure water. All monolayer nanopatterning (CNL) and serial metallization (CET) operations

Self-assembly of octadecyltrichlorosilane: Surface structures formed using different protocols of particle lithography

• ChaMarra K. Saner,
• Kathie L. Lusker,
• Zorabel M. LeJeune,
• Wilson K. Serem and
• Jayne C. Garno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 114–122, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.12

• ; nanopatterning; nanostructures; octadecyltrichlorosilane; particle lithography; self-assembled monolayer; self-assembly; Introduction Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of organosilanes have become important as surface resists and functional coatings for micro- and nanopatterning applications [1][2][3][4][5][6][7

Substrate-mediated effects in photothermal patterning of alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers with microfocused continuous-wave lasers

• Anja Schröter,
• Mark Kalus and
• Nils Hartmann

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 65–74, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.8

• routines in micro- and nanopatterning of different types of SAMs and other ultrathin organic coatings [11][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]. Because of the photothermal process, the performance of such laser techniques depends on both the peculiar chemical structure of the SAM, notably the

The atomic force microscope as a mechano–electrochemical pen

• Christian Obermair,
• Andreas Wagner and
• Thomas Schimmel

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2011, 2, 659–664, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.70

• experiments demonstrated that the tip of an electrochemical STM can also be used for local electrochemical deposition. Material electrochemically deposited on an STM tip was subsequently transferred to the surface [22][23], allowing controlled metallic nanopatterning of surfaces. Improvements of STM-based