Self-assembled inorganic nanopatterns (INPs) made by sol-gel dip-coating: Applications in nanotechnology and nanofabrication

摘要

Ceramic nanopatterns have been prepared on various substrates through a simple fast, cheap, reproducible, and easy to scale up "bottom-up" approach, involving sol-gel dip coating, block copolymer self-assembly, and thermal treatment. The patterns are composed of hexagonally arranged nanoperforations through which the surface of the substrate remains accessible. They constitute novel ordered heterogeneous inorganic nanopatterns (INPs), which present a unique combination of thermal, mechanical, and chemical stability with the very interesting characteristics of ordered nano-heterogeneity. This approach offers unique possibilities to process large-scale nanostructured surfaces finding applications in many domains of nanotechnology and nanofabrication. (C) 2015 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.