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Fabrication of Functional Polymer Structures through Bottom-Up Selective Vapor Deposition from Bottom-Up Conductive Templates
An
electrically induced bottom-up process was introduced for the
fabrication of multifunctional nanostructures of polymers. Without
requiring complicated photolithography or printing techniques, the
fabrication process first produced a conducting template by colloidal
lithography to create an interconnected conduction pathway. By supplying
an electrical charge to the conducting network, the conducting areas
were enabled with a highly energized surface that generally deactivated
the adsorbed reactive species and inhibited the vapor deposition of
poly-<i>p</i>-xylylene polymers. However, the template allowed
the deposition of ordered poly-<i>p</i>-xylylene nanostructures
only on the confined and negative areas of the conducting template,
in a relatively large centimeter-scale production. The wide selection
of functionality and multifunctional capability of poly-<i>p</i>-xylylenes naturally rendered the synergistic and orthogonal chemical
reactivity of the resulting nanostructures. With only a few steps,
the construction of a nanometer topology with the functionalization
of multiple chemical conducts can be achieved, and the selected deposition
process represents a state-of-the-art nanostructure fabrication in
a simple and versatile approach from the bottom up