Sun Z, Yang B. Fabricating colloidal crystals and construction of ordered nanostructures.
NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2006;
1:46. [PMCID:
PMC3246625 DOI:
10.1007/s11671-006-9008-6]
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Abstract
Colloidal crystals of polymeric or inorganic microspheres are of extensive interest due to their potential applications in such as sensing, optics, photonic bandgap and surface patterning. The article highlights a set of approaches developed in our group, which are efficient to prepare colloidal crystals with ordered voids, patterned colloidal crystals on non-planar surfaces, heterogeneous colloidal crystals of different building blocks, colloidal crystals composed of non-spherical polyhedrons, and colloidal crystals of non-close-packed colloidal microspheres in particular. The use of these colloidal crystals as templates for different microstructures range from nanoscale to micron-scale is also summarized.
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