Nano-Scale Ordered Polymers Using Self

Magnetically-guided self-assembly of fibrin matrices with ordered nano-scale structure for tissue engineering.

The development of effective biological scaffold materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications hinges on the ability to present precise environmental cues to specific cell populations to guide their position and function. Natural extracellular matrices have an ordered nano-scale structure that can modulate cell behaviors critical for developmental control, including di...

Self-ordered magnetic α-FeSi2 nano-stripes on Si(111)

From self - organizing polymers to nano - and biomaterials {

By self-organization polymers form a large number of superstructures with characteristic dimensions in the range of a few nanometers up to several micrometers. They can be used to produce in a controlled way a wide range of nano-and microstructured materials such as nanoparticles, nanoporous materials and drug carriers. Applications in the fields of materials science, electronics, molecular bio...

Fabricating ordered 2-D nano-structured arrays using nanosphere lithography

Recent advances in the use of plasmonic metamaterials to improve absorption of light in thin-film solar photovoltaic devices has created a demand for a scalable method of patterning large areas with metal nanostructures deposited in an ordered array. This article describes two methods of fabricating ordered 2D nanosphere colloidal films: spin coating and interface coating. The two methods are c...

3-D Nano-Fiber Manufacturing by Controlled Pulling of Liquid Polymers using Nano-Probes

In-addition to the applications of imaging and characterization, proximal probes are proposed to be used as three-dimensional (3-D) nano-scale manufacturing tools in this paper. Commercially available Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) systems are mainly limited to 1-D or 2-D manipulation tasks, and advanced 3-D nano-manufacturing applications are not possible. Therefore, this paper proposes 3-D nan...