Publications
1.
Kang, Sung Hoon; Wu, Ning; Grinthal, Alison; Aizenberg, Joanna
Meniscus Lithography: Evaporation-Induced Self-Organization of Pillar Arrays into Moiré Patterns Journal Article
In: Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, pp. 177802, 2011, (Selected as Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion and Highlighted in Physics Today and Physics Synopsis. ).
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We demonstrate a self-organizing system that generates patterns by dynamic feedback: two periodic surfaces collectively structure an intervening liquid sandwiched between them, which then reconfigures the original surface features into moiré patterns as it evaporates. Like the conventional moiré phenomenon, the patterns are deterministic and tunable by mismatch angle, yet additional behaviors—chirality from achiral starting motifs and preservation of the patterns after the surfaces are separated—emerge uniquely from the feedback process. Patterning menisci based on this principle provides a simple, scalable approach for making a series of complex, long-range-ordered structures.
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2011
Kang, Sung Hoon; Wu, Ning; Grinthal, Alison; Aizenberg, Joanna
Meniscus Lithography: Evaporation-Induced Self-Organization of Pillar Arrays into Moiré Patterns Journal Article
In: Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, pp. 177802, 2011, (Selected as Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion and Highlighted in Physics Today and Physics Synopsis. ).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Evaporation, Moire, Nanopillar, Self-Organization
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title = {Meniscus Lithography: Evaporation-Induced Self-Organization of Pillar Arrays into Moiré Patterns},
author = {Sung Hoon Kang and Ning Wu and Alison Grinthal and Joanna Aizenberg},
url = {http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.177802},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-10-20},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
volume = {107},
pages = {177802},
abstract = {We demonstrate a self-organizing system that generates patterns by dynamic feedback: two periodic surfaces collectively structure an intervening liquid sandwiched between them, which then reconfigures the original surface features into moiré patterns as it evaporates. Like the conventional moiré phenomenon, the patterns are deterministic and tunable by mismatch angle, yet additional behaviors—chirality from achiral starting motifs and preservation of the patterns after the surfaces are separated—emerge uniquely from the feedback process. Patterning menisci based on this principle provides a simple, scalable approach for making a series of complex, long-range-ordered structures.},
note = {Selected as Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion and Highlighted in Physics Today and Physics Synopsis. },
keywords = {Evaporation, Moire, Nanopillar, Self-Organization},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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We demonstrate a self-organizing system that generates patterns by dynamic feedback: two periodic surfaces collectively structure an intervening liquid sandwiched between them, which then reconfigures the original surface features into moiré patterns as it evaporates. Like the conventional moiré phenomenon, the patterns are deterministic and tunable by mismatch angle, yet additional behaviors—chirality from achiral starting motifs and preservation of the patterns after the surfaces are separated—emerge uniquely from the feedback process. Patterning menisci based on this principle provides a simple, scalable approach for making a series of complex, long-range-ordered structures.