Colloidal Self‐Assembly Meets Nanofabrication: From Two‐Dimensional Colloidal Crystals to Nanostructure Arrays
Abstract
Self-assembly of colloidal microspheres or nanospheres is an effective strategy for fabrication of ordered nanostructures. By combination of colloidal self-assembly with nanofabrication techniques, two-dimensional (2D) colloidal crystals have been employed as masks or templates for evaporation, deposition, etching, and imprinting, etc. These methods are defined as "colloidal lithography", which is now recognized as a facile, inexpensive, and repeatable nanofabrication technique. This paper presents an overview of 2D colloidal crystals and nanostructure arrays fabricated by colloidal lithography. First, different methods for fabricating self-assembled 2D colloidal crystals and complex 2D colloidal crystal structures are summarized. After that, according to the nanofabrication strategy employed in colloidal lithography, related works are reviewed as colloidal-crystal-assisted evaporation, deposition, etching, imprinting, and dewetting, respectively.
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- Authors
- Zhang, J., Li, Y., Zhang, X., & Yang, B.
- Affiliations
- Jilin University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Yang, Bai
- Venue
- Advanced Materials
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-08-27
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 38
- Pages
- 4249-4269
- ISSN
- 0935-9648 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-4095
- OpenAlex
- W2126890783
- Cited by
- 649
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 4.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advanced Materials (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
- Keywords
- colloidal self-assembly, two-dimensional colloidal crystals, colloidal lithography, nanostructure arrays, colloidal microspheres, nanospheres, imprinting, dewetting, ordered nanostructures
- MeSH terms
- Colloids, Crystallization, Electroplating, Metals, Oxides, Surface Properties, Nanostructures
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