scholarly journals Multifunctional Structured Platforms: From Patterning of Polymer-Based Films to Their Subsequent Filling with Various Nanomaterials

Polymers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Madalina Handrea-Dragan ◽  
Ioan Botiz

There is an astonishing number of optoelectronic, photonic, biological, sensing, or storage media devices, just to name a few, that rely on a variety of extraordinary periodic surface relief miniaturized patterns fabricated on polymer-covered rigid or flexible substrates. Even more extraordinary is that these surface relief patterns can be further filled, in a more or less ordered fashion, with various functional nanomaterials and thus can lead to the realization of more complex structured architectures. These architectures can serve as multifunctional platforms for the design and the development of a multitude of novel, better performing nanotechnological applications. In this work, we aim to provide an extensive overview on how multifunctional structured platforms can be fabricated by outlining not only the main polymer patterning methodologies but also by emphasizing various deposition methods that can guide different structures of functional nanomaterials into periodic surface relief patterns. Our aim is to provide the readers with a toolbox of the most suitable patterning and deposition methodologies that could be easily identified and further combined when the fabrication of novel structured platforms exhibiting interesting properties is targeted.

2011 ◽  
Vol 544 (1) ◽  
pp. 37/[1025]-49/[1037] ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Carbone ◽  
Daniel Corbett ◽  
Steve J. Elston ◽  
Peter Raynes ◽  
Alexander Jesacher ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 938-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suizhou Yang ◽  
Ke Yang ◽  
Aloke Jain ◽  
Ramaswamy Nagarajan ◽  
Jayant Kumar

2015 ◽  
Vol 229 (7-8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Liu ◽  
Michelle D. Casper ◽  
Arif O. Gozen ◽  
Sharvil Desai ◽  
Ethan Klem ◽  
...  

AbstractOrganic photovoltaic (OPVs) devices are promising due to their low cost, light weight, and compatibility with high throughput processing on flexible substrates. This paper demonstrates a simple process utilizing thin-film instabilities to enhance light absorption in OPVs in a way that is compatible with planar processing and the customary thermal annealing steps. Placing a thin, transparent polystyrene (PS) film between the glass substrate and the transparent conductive indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode results in the formation of periodic surface buckles in the PS layer due to induced strain caused by thermal expansion mismatch between the ITO and PS films. OPVs comprising bilayer laminates of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and fullerene (C


Radio Science ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1931-1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuneki Yamasaki ◽  
Hirotaka Tanaka ◽  
Takashi Hinata ◽  
Toshio Hosono

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