Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 29, Issue 46, Pages 14017-14023Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la402652t
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81172082, 51272246]
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We developed a simple and general approach for constructing a wafer-scale monolayer, close-packed polystyrene (PS), and SiO2 sphere arrays, namely colloidal crystals, which have significant potential in various applications. The method combines slope self-assembly and thermal treatment to achieve large-area and high-quality colloidal crystal with a proper slant angle (theta) and latex concentration (volume fraction, phi). The dependence of the structures of colloidal crystals on a dispersion system was also investigated. Moreover, a theoretical analysis of the slope self-assembly method was proposed. In addition, we applied the method to assemble PS spheres on different kinds of substrates, which indicates that the method is a versatile and reliable way to fabricate monolayer colloidal crystals.
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