Patterning Materials through Viscoelastic Flow and Phase Separation†
This research was partly supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) through the Active Polymer Center Pattern Integration (No. R11-2007-050-01004-0), the World Class University Program (R32-20031), and the Fusion Research Program for Green Technologies (2011-0000004).
Graphical Abstract
Going with the flow: Patterning of various inorganic materials was achieved by phase separation between the nanomaterials and a polymer melt as well as concentrating the nanomaterials in defined areas by a polymer melt flow. This technique generated micro- and nanostructured patterns of metals and semiconductors (see picture).