AVS 51st International Symposium
    Surface Science Monday Sessions
       Session SS2-MoA

Invited Paper SS2-MoA5
Controlling Surface Architecture on the sub-100 nm Length Scale with Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Monday, November 15, 2004, 3:20 pm, Room 210C

Session: Assembled Monolayers
Presenter: K. Salaita, Northwestern University
Authors: C.A. Mirkin, Northwestern University
K. Salaita, Northwestern University
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Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) is a scanning-probe technique that permits the chemical functionalization of surfaces with nanoscale precision. Based upon a conventional Atomic Force Microscope, DPN combines ambient operation and resolutions superior to those of e-beam lithography, and allows one to create combinatorial libraries of soft matter nanostructures that can be used in fundamental surface science studies, biological diagnostics, and organic nanoelectronics. This talk will describe the fundamental capabilities of DPN and its use to generate and study a wide variety of nanostructures using materials ranging from oligonucleotides to proteins to conjugated polymers. Moreover, recent efforts to transform DPN into a high throughput tool through the use of 1 million pen cantilever arrays will be presented.