We acknowledge the financial support from the Regional Strategic Project “Ponamat” and the FIRB Contract RBIP06SH3W, and Dr Alberto Zompatori at Solvay-Solexis for kindly providing the PFPE-urethane-methacrylate elastomer. We also thank Stefano Pagliara for optical lithography and Ripalta Stabile for the SEM measurements. D. P. would also like to thank Dr. Sergio Bernardi at Avago Technologies for many helpful discussions.
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Communication
Sub-50-nm Conjugated Polymer Dots by Nanoprinting†
Article first published online: 15 OCT 2008
DOI: 10.1002/smll.200800210
Copyright © 2008 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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How to Cite
Mele, E., Camposeo, A., De Giorgi, M., Di Benedetto, F., De Marco, C., Tasco, V., Cingolani, R. and Pisignano, D. (2008), Sub-50-nm Conjugated Polymer Dots by Nanoprinting. Small, 4: 1894–1899. doi: 10.1002/smll.200800210
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 3 NOV 2008
- Article first published online: 15 OCT 2008
- Manuscript Revised: 11 JUN 2008
- Manuscript Received: 7 FEB 2008
Funded by
- Regional Strategic Project “Ponamat”
- FIRB. Grant Number: RBIP06SH3W
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Keywords:
- deposition;
- light-emitting polymers;
- nanoprinting;
- surface modification
Graphical Abstract
Isolated organic light-emitting dots with lateral dimensions down to the 10-nm scale are realized by direct particle replication on conjugated polymers (see image). The emission properties of the realized nanostructures, exhibiting blue-shift up to 90 meV with respect to reference film samples, demonstrate the occurrence of excitation-transfer spatial-confinement effects in the conjugated polymer particles.