title: Hollow Nanospheres Array Fabrication via Nano-Conglutination Technology.
abstract: Hollow nanospheres array is a special nanostructure with great applications in photonics, electronics and biochemistry. The nanofabrication technique with high resolution is crucial to nanosciences and nano-technology. This paper presents a novel nonconventional nano-conglutination technology combining polystyrenes spheres (PSs) self-assembly, conglutination and a lift-off process to fabricate the hollow nanospheres array with nanoholes. A self-assembly monolayer of PSs was stuck off from the quartz wafer by the thiol-ene adhesive material, and then the PSs was removed via a lift-off process and the hollow nanospheres embedded into the thiol-ene substrate was obtained. Thiolene polymer is a UV-curable material via "click chemistry" reaction at ambient conditions without the oxygen inhibition, which has excellent chemical and physical properties to be attractive as the adhesive material in nano-conglutination technology. Using the technique, a hollow nanospheres array with the nanoholes at the diameter of 200 nm embedded into the rigid thiol-ene substrate was fabricated, which has great potential to serve as a reaction container, catalyst and surface enhanced Raman scattering substrate.
authors.forename: Man
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Qiling
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Liangping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Lifang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Axiu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: Song
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hu
mesh_terms: D055119:Elastic Modulus; D054118:Nanospheres / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D010316:Particle Size; D011137:Polystyrenes / Q000737:chemistry; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D011137:Polystyrenes