DNA-templated nanowire fabrication.

TiO2 nanowire-templated hierarchical nanowire network as water-repelling coating

Extraordinary water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces make them novel candidates for a great variety of potential applications. A general approach to achieve superhydrophobicity requires low-energy coating on the surface and roughness on nano- and micrometre scale. However, typical construction of superhydrophobic surfaces with micro-nano structure through top-down fabrication i...

Templated Fabrication of Nanowire and Nanoring Arrays

DNA-templated nanowires: morphology and electrical conductivity.

DNA-templating has been used to create nanowires from metals, compound semiconductors and conductive polymers. The mechanism of growth involves nucleation at binding sites on the DNA followed by growth of spherical particles and then, under favourable conditions, a slow transformation to a smooth nanowire. The final transformation is favoured by restricting the amount of templated material per ...

Surface-Templated Assembly for Mass-Production of ZnO Nanowire-Based Integrated Devices

Recently, nanowire-based devices draw large attention as next-generation device architecture, while a lack of mass-production method for such devices has been holding back their practical applications. As proposed in our original proposal, we developed a method to mass-produce ZnO nanowire-based integrated devices, where self-assembled monolayer patterns on the substrates direct the assembly an...

Fabrication of Highly Ordered Polymeric Nanodot and Nanowire Arrays Templated by Supramolecular Assembly Block Copolymer Nanoporous Thin Films

Realizing the vast technological potential of patternable block copolymers requires both the precise controlling of the orientation and long-range ordering, which is still a challenging topic so far. Recently, we have demonstrated that ordered nanoporous thin film can be fabricated from a simple supramolecular assembly approach. Here we will extend this approach and provide a general route to f...