One-dimensional metal nanowire assembly via block copolymer soft graphoepitaxy.

Jeong, Seong-Jun; Moon, Hyoung-Seok; Shin, Jonghwa; Kim, Bong Hoon; Shin, Dong Ok; Kim, Ju Young; Lee, Yong-Hee; Kim, Jaeup U et al. · Nano Lett · 2010

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We accomplished a facile and scalable route to linearly stacked, one-dimensional metal nanowire assembly via soft graphoepitaxy of block copolymers. A one-dimensional nanoscale lamellar stack could be achieved by controlling the block copolymer film thickness self-assembled within the disposable topographic confinement and utilized as a template to generate linear metal nanowire assembly. The mechanism underlying this interesting morhpology evolution was investigated by self-consistent field theory. The optical properties of metal nanowire assembly involved with surface plasmon polariton were investigated by first principle calculations.