title: Microdisplacement printing.
abstract: We describe a new patterning technique that employs microcontact printing to replace preformed labile self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) selectively; we call this "microdisplacement printing". We demonstrate that this technique results in ordered molecular regions of both the patterning ("displacing") molecule as well as the remnant labile film, here 1-adamantanethiolate. The existence of the 1-adamantanethiolate SAM before patterning hinders lateral surface diffusion of the patterning molecules, and therefore permits the use of molecules that are otherwise too mobile to pattern by other methods.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Physics, 104 Davey Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dameron
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Hampton
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Mullen
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Gillmor
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Weiss