Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Micro/Nano-structured Surfaces Prepared by Photolithography, Soft-lithography and the Template of Colloidal Silica Spheres

XU Jian, XIA Hai-Ping, ZHANG Yue-Pin, ZHANG Jian-Li, WANG Jin-Hao   

  1. Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Materials, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
  • Received:2003-12-04 Revised:2004-03-08 Published:2005-01-20 Online:2005-01-20

Abstract: The preparation of the micro/nano-stuctured surfaces is important for wetting study of material surfaces and application of biomaterials, in order to obtain super-hydrophobility or meet well the requirement
of the biological environments. In the present work, preparation of micron and sub-micron/nano-scale structured surfaces was studied. Micro-scale square or round structures on the surfaces were prepared
by photo-lithography; the distorted square or round structures such as tower-shape and disc-shape structures were imprinted by soft-lithography; the sub-micron/nano-scale net structured surfaces were
prepared by using self-assembled silica colloidal crystals as the template and infiltration of polystyrene-toluene solution in the crystals. The surface features of the samples were investigated by optical and scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

Key words: surface, micro/nano-structure, photo-lithography, soft-lithography, silica sphere, template

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