Evolution of dip-pen nanolithography (DPN): from molecular patterning to materials discovery

G Liu, SH Petrosko, Z Zheng, CA Mirkin - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) is a nanofabrication technique that can be used to directly
write molecular patterns on substrates with high resolution and registration. Over the past …

Development of Dip‐Pen Nanolithography (DPN) and its derivatives

G Liu, M Hirtz, H Fuchs, Z Zheng - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Dip‐pen nanolithography (DPN) is a unique nanofabrication tool that can directly write a
variety of molecular patterns on a surface with high resolution and excellent registration …

Acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions by mechanical distortion

YS Zholdassov, L Yuan, SR Garcia, RW Kwok… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Challenges in quantifying how force affects bond formation have hindered the widespread
adoption of mechanochemistry. We used parallel tip-based methods to determine reaction …

Hard-tip, soft-spring lithography

W Shim, AB Braunschweig, X Liao, J Chai, JK Lim… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Nanofabrication strategies are becoming increasingly expensive and equipment-intensive,
and consequently less accessible to researchers. As an alternative, scanning probe …

Beam pen lithography

F Huo, G Zheng, X Liao, LR Giam, J Chai… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Lithography techniques are currently being developed to fabricate nanoscale components
for integrated circuits, medical diagnostics and optoelectronics,,,,,,. In conventional far-field …

Covalently patterned graphene surfaces by a force-accelerated Diels–Alder reaction

S Bian, AM Scott, Y Cao, Y Liang, S Osuna… - Journal of the …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Cyclopentadienes (CPs) with Raman and electrochemically active tags were patterned
covalently onto graphene surfaces using force-accelerated Diels–Alder (DA) reactions that …

Large-area molecular patterning with polymer pen lithography

DJ Eichelsdoerfer, X Liao, MD Cabezas, W Morris… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
The challenge of constructing surfaces with nanostructured chemical functionality is central
to many areas of biology and biotechnology. This protocol describes the steps required for …

Scanning probe-enabled nanocombinatorics define the relationship between fibronectin feature size and stem cell fate

LR Giam, MD Massich, L Hao… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
We report the development of a powerful analytical method that utilizes a tilted elastomeric
pyramidal pen array in the context of a scanning probe lithography experiment to rapidly …

Interdigitated multicolored bioink micropatterns by multiplexed polymer pen lithography

F Brinkmann, M Hirtz, AM Greiner, M Weschenfelder… - Small, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Multiplexing, ie, the application and integration of more than one ink in an interdigitated
microscale pattern, is still a challenge for microcontact printing (μCP) and similar techniques …

Polymer-pen chemical lift-off lithography

X Xu, Q Yang, KM Cheung, C Zhao, N Wattanatorn… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We designed and fabricated large arrays of polymer pens having sub-20 nm tips to perform
chemical lift-off lithography (CLL). As such, we developed a hybrid patterning strategy called …