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Soft Nanopatterning on Light-Emitting Inorganic–Organic Composites†

  1. Luana Persano1,
  2. Sandra Molle1,
  3. Salvatore Girardo1,
  4. Antonio A. R. Neves1,
  5. Andrea Camposeo1,
  6. Ripalta Stabile1,
  7. Roberto Cingolani1,
  8. Dario Pisignano1,2,*

Article first published online: 1 SEP 2008

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200800244

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Advanced Functional Materials

Advanced Functional Materials

Volume 18, Issue 18, pages 2692–2698, September 23, 2008

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Persano, L., Molle, S., Girardo, S., Neves, A. A. R., Camposeo, A., Stabile, R., Cingolani, R. and Pisignano, D. (2008), Soft Nanopatterning on Light-Emitting Inorganic–Organic Composites. Advanced Functional Materials, 18: 2692–2698. doi: 10.1002/adfm.200800244

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  1. 1

    NNL, National Nanotechnology Laboratory of Instituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Distretto Tecnologico ISUFI via Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce (Italy)

  2. 2

    Present address: Istituto Superiore di Formazione Interdisciplinare (ISUFI), Università del Salento, Lecce (Italy)

*NNL, National Nanotechnology Laboratory of Instituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, c/o Distretto Tecnologico ISUFI, via Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce (Italy).

  1. †

    We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Regional Strategic Project ‘Ponamat’, from the Italian Institute of Technology, and from the Italian Ministry of University and Research through the FIRB project RBIP06SH3W.

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 16 SEP 2008
  2. Article first published online: 1 SEP 2008
  3. Manuscript Revised: 26 MAY 2008
  4. Manuscript Received: 18 FEB 2008

Funded by

  • Regional Strategic Project ‘Ponamat’
  • Italian Institute of Technology
  • Italian Ministry of University and Research. Grant Number: RBIP06SH3W
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Correction: Soft Nanopatterning on Light-Emitting Inorganic-Organic Composites

Vol. 19, Issue 9, n/a, Article first published online: 8 MAY 2009

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Keywords:

  • Nanopatterning;
  • Nanocomposites;
  • Light-emitting materials;
  • Inorganic–Organic hybrid materials

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The nanopatterning of nanocomposites made by luminescent inorganic nanocrystals and light-emitting conjugated polymers is demonstrated by soft moulding lithography. Vertical nanofluidics is exploited to overcome the polymer transport difficulties intrinsic in materials incorporating nanocrystals, and the rheology, fluorescence, absolute quantum yield, and emission directionality of the nanostructured composites are investigated.

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In this work we demonstrate the nanopatterning of nanocomposites made by luminescent zinc oxide nanoparticles and light-emitting conjugated polymers by means of soft molding lithography. Vertical nanofluidics is exploited to overcome the polymer transport difficulties intrinsic in materials incorporating nanocrystals, and the rheology, fluorescence, absolute quantum yield, and emission directionality of the nanostructured composites are investigated. We study the effect of patterned gratings on the directionality of light emitted from the nanocomposites, finding evidence of the enhancement of forward emitted light, due to the printed wavelength-scale periodicity. These results open new possibilities for the realization of nanopatterned devices based on hybrid organic-inorganic systems.

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