Fabrication of colloidal crystals on hydrophilic/hydrophobic surface by spin-coating

摘要

Herein, we demonstrate the structure of the PS colloidal crystals which were fabricated on the hydrophilic/hydrophobic Si wafers by a spin-coating technique. Monodisperse PS colloids are spin-coated onto self-assembled monolayers of 3-(aminopropyl)triethoxysilane and propyltrimethoxysilane coated Si wafers. PS spheres organized as ordered close-packed face-centered cubic structure with (111) planes on the hydrophilic surface while they gathered without the crystal structure on the hydrophobic surface. This paper also reports a simple and rapid method to fabricate the close-packed structure of hollow TiO_2 spheres. The colloidal crystal of TiO_2 hollow spheres was prepared using the PS sphere template on the hydrophobic surface. The mechanism for the growing multilayers of self-assembled PS particles from a suspension onto a hydrophilic and hydrophobic Si wafer substrates using the spin-coating method at various rotating speeds is also discussed in this paper.