Tailoring self-organized nanostructured morphologies in kilometer-long polymer fiber.

ABSTRACT: While nanowires and nanospheres have been utilized in the design of a diverse array of nanoscale devices, recent schemes frequently require nanoscale architectures of higher complexity. However, conventional techniques are largely unsatisfactory for the production of more intricate nanoscale shapes and patterns, and even successful fabrication methods are incompatible with large-scale production efforts. Novel top-down, iterative size reduction (ISR)-mediated approaches have recently been shown to be promising for the production of high-throughput cylindrical and spherical nanostructures, though more complex architectures have yet to be created using this process. Here we report the presence of a hitherto-undescribed transitory region between nanowire and nanosphere transformation, where a

SUBMITTER: Khudiyev T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4010931 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature