A large array of laterally ordered soft nanowires from worm‐like micelles on micropatterned surfaces are generated by a simple and effective method. The nanowires can easily be modified and decorated by simple physical (hydrophobic/hydrophilic) interactions, which creates new opportunities for specific chemical and biosensing applications.
Large arrays of aligned DNA and polymeric nanowires ranging from 20 to 100 nm in diameter are fabricated by de-wetting of patterned surfaces. Compared to other nanofabrication techniques, our approach is robust, fast and low cost. In addition, arrays of functionalized nanowires for bio/chemical applications can be simply produced at large scale.
A novel, simple, and low‐cost method is presented by P. E. Boukany and co‐workers to generate a large array of laterally ordered soft nanowires from worm‐like micelles. These micellar nanowires can be successfully decorated with hydrophobic molecules that incorporate into the micelle core or with hydrophilic nanoparticles such as quantum dots entrapped in the corona. This platform, described in detail on page 1729, should enable new opportunities in functional nanoscale devices, especially bio‐chemical sensors
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