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Capillary Forming: Diverse 3D Microarchitectures Made by Capillary Forming of Carbon Nanotubes (Adv. Mater. 39/2010)

  1. Michael De Volder1,2,
  2. Sameh H. Tawfick1,
  3. Sei Jin Park1,
  4. Davor Copic1,
  5. Zhouzhou Zhao1,
  6. Wei Lu1,
  7. A. John Hart1,*

Article first published online: 19 OCT 2010

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201090127

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Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials

Volume 22, Issue 39, October 15, 2010

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De Volder, M., Tawfick, S. H., Park, S. J., Copic, D., Zhao, Z., Lu, W. and Hart, A. J. (2010), Capillary Forming: Diverse 3D Microarchitectures Made by Capillary Forming of Carbon Nanotubes (Adv. Mater. 39/2010). Adv. Mater., 22: n/a. doi: 10.1002/adma.201090127

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  1. 1

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (USA)

  2. 2

    IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 3001 Leuven (Belgium)

*Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2350 Hayward Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (USA).

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 19 OCT 2010
  2. Article first published online: 19 OCT 2010

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Keywords:

  • Carbon Nanotubes;
  • Self-Assembly;
  • Microstructures;
  • Microelectromechanical Systems;
  • Polymeric Materials
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The cover shows an assembly of carbon nanotube (CNT) microstructures made by capillary forming, a new technique that enables local transformation of vertically aligned filaments into complex 3D microarchitectures. On page 4384, Michael De Volder, Sameh Tawfick, A. John Hart, and coworkers describe their use of capillary forming to fashion diverse CNT microstructures having sloped, bent, and twisted geometries, and multidirectional textures. Capillary forming combines the scalability of planar lithography with the local specificity of self-assembly, paving the way for use in a new generation of 3D microsystems and multifunctional surfaces.

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