Generalized On-Demand Production of Nanoparticle Monolayers on Arbitrary Solid Surfaces via Capillarity-Mediated Inverse Transfer

Nano Letters
Jeehan ChangTaewook Kang

Abstract

Century-old Langmuir monolayer deposition still represents the most convenient approach to the production of monolayers of colloidal nanoparticles on solid substrates for practical biological and chemical-sensing applications. However, this approach simply yields arbitrarily shaped large monolayers on a flat surface and is strongly limited by substrate topography and interfacial energy. Here, we describe a generalized and facile method of rapidly producing uniform monolayers of various colloidal nanoparticles on arbitrary solid substrates by using an ordinary capillary tube. Our method is based on an interesting finding of inversion phenomenon of a nanoparticle-laden air-water interface by flowing through a capillary tube in a manner that prevents the particles from adhesion to the capillary sidewall, thereby presenting the nanoparticles face-first at the tube's opposite end for direct and one-step deposition onto a substrate. We show that our method not only allows the placement of a nanoparticle monolayer at target locations of solid substrates regardless of their surface geometry and adhesion but also enables the production of monolayers containing nanoparticles with different size, shape, surface charge, and composition. To...Continue Reading

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