Volume 50, Issue 46 pp. 10977-10980
Communication

Patterning Materials through Viscoelastic Flow and Phase Separation

Minwoo Park

Minwoo Park

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seoul (Korea)

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Prof. Younan Xia

Prof. Younan Xia

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seoul (Korea)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO63130 (USA)

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Prof. Unyong Jeong

Corresponding Author

Prof. Unyong Jeong

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seoul (Korea)

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seoul (Korea)Search for more papers by this author
First published: 26 September 2011
Citations: 10

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).

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