Electron-irradiation promoted exchange reaction as a tool for surface engineering and chemical lithography

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) can serve as versatile resist/template materials for surface engineering and electron beam lithography (EBL), making possible a new type of lateral patterning: chemical lithography (CL). Whereas CL has been well established for aromatic SAMs, it is hardly possible fo...

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Hauptverfasser: Terfort, Andreas (VerfasserIn) , Zharnikov, Michael (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2021
In: Advanced materials interfaces
Year: 2021, Jahrgang: 8, Heft: 10, Pages: 1-14
ISSN:2196-7350
DOI:10.1002/admi.202100148
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202100148
Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admi.202100148
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Verfasserangaben:Andreas Terfort and Michael Zharnikov
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Zusammenfassung:Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) can serve as versatile resist/template materials for surface engineering and electron beam lithography (EBL), making possible a new type of lateral patterning: chemical lithography (CL). Whereas CL has been well established for aromatic SAMs, it is hardly possible for aliphatic monolayers, because of extensive irradiation-induced damage excluding selective modification of specific chemical groups. Turning this drawback into an advantage, the irradiation-promoted exchange reaction approach is developed, which is described in detail in the present review. The key idea of the approach is tuning the extent of the exchange reaction between a primary aliphatic SAM covering the substrate and a potential molecular substituent, which is capable of building a SAM on the same support, by electron irradiation. The major advantages of the approach are low irradiation doses (≤1 mC cm−2) and flexible choice of SAM-forming molecules, with a broad pool available commercially. Consequently, a large variety of binary SAMs with controlled compositions can be prepared and, in combination with EBL, complex chemical patterns can be fabricated, serving in particular as templates for subsequent area-selective chemical reactions, surface-initiated polymerization, attachment of nanoparticles, non-specific and specific proteins adsorption, and growth of 3D DNA nanostructures.
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ISSN:2196-7350
DOI:10.1002/admi.202100148