Fabrication of biological nanostructures by scanning near-field photolithography of chloromethylphenylsiloxane monolayers.

Sun, Shuqing; Montague, Matthew; Critchley, Kevin; Chen, Mu-San; Dressick, Walter J; Evans, Stephen D; Leggett, Graham J · Nano Lett · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We demonstrate the fabrication of sub-100-nm DNA surface patterns by scanning near-field optical lithography using a near-field scanning optical microscope coupled to a UV laser and a chloromethylphenylsiloxane (CMPS) self-assembled monolayer (SAM). The process involves 244-nm exposure of the CMPS SAM to create nanoscale patterns of surface carboxylic acid functional groups, followed by their conversion to the N-hydroxysuccinimidyl ester and reaction of the active ester with DNA to spatially control DNA grafting with high selectivity.

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