Chem. Mater. 2005, 17, 5489-5497
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Encapsulating Nanoparticle Arrays into Layer-by-layer Multilayers by Capillary Transfer Lithography Hyunhyub Ko, Chaoyang Jiang, and Vladimir V. Tsukruk* Materials Science & Engineering Department, Iowa State UniVersity, Ames, Iowa 50011 ReceiVed April 22, 2005. ReVised Manuscript ReceiVed August 27, 2005
We introduce capillary transfer lithography for the fabrication of ordered microscopic arrays from nanoparticulate materials encapsulated into ultrathin (