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Cascaded Assembly of Complex Multiparticle Patterns

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Songbo Ni
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Mona Julia Katharina Klein
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Nicholas D. Spencer
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Heiko Wolf *
DOI:10.1021/la403956edelete
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A method for the cascaded capillary assembly of different particle populations in a single assembly cycle is presented. The method addresses the increasing need for fast and simple fabrication of multicomponent arrays from colloidal micro- and nanoscale building blocks for constructing nanoelectronic, optical, and sensing devices. It is based on the use of a microfluidic device from which two independent capillary bridges extend. The menisci of the capillary bridges are pulled over a template with trapping sites that receive the colloidal particles. We describe the parameters for simultaneous, high-yield assembly from both menisci and demonstrate the applicability of the process by means of the size-selective assembly of particles of different diameters and also by the fabrication of two-component particle clusters with defined shape and composition. This approach allows the fabrication of multifunctional particle clusters having different functionalities at predetermined positions.
Keywords:
COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS
NANOPARTICLES
PLACEMENT
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