Other bottom-up self-assembly methods have also been pursued, including harnessing thin-film fluid instabilities such as controlled dewetting, thermocapillary instabilities, and electrohydrodynamic instabilities, as well as other forms of self-assembly such as of CHQ molecules, via liquid drainage and pinch-off, and via solvent evaporation.
The evolution of Pd nanostructures are systematically controlled by the dewetting of thin film by means of the surface diffusion in conjunction with the surface and interface energy minimization and Volmer-Weber growth model.
It is clearly shown that graphene was sparsely formed on the surface of SiO2, which is caused by the dewetting of Ni catalyst film.
The micro-scaffolds (widths < 100 μm) were made by dewetting of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) thin films containing parallel strips, and cells were seeded to form cell/polymer micro-constructs during or post the micro-scaffold fabrication process.
Variations at the contact (e.g., by dewetting of the polymer at the inorganic interface) can be excluded since the observed fill factor is thermally invariant, which is a direct measure for the interfacial charge-transfer at the contact.
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For example, thin atactic S/pBrS films made by uncontrolled FRP and controlled ATRP free-radical polymerizations with random commoner sequences dewetted rapidly from silicon wafers when heated, while thin films made from atactic S/pBrS with random comonomer sequences, but obtained by controlled RAFT syntheses were "stickier", and only dewet from silicon wafers after much longer annealing times.
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