Benchtop nanopatterning using soft lithography

CHED 249

Yelizaveta Babayan, y-babayan@northwestern.edu, Viswanathan Meenakshi, and Teri W. Odom, todom@northwestern.edu. Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3113
This talk describes several benchtop nanoscale patterning experiments that can be incorporated into undergraduate laboratories or advanced high school chemistry curricula. The experiments are based on soft lithographic techniques such as replica molding, micro-molding in capillaries, and micro-contact printing and etching. These simple labs were designed using readily available and inexpensive materials such as compact discs, glass microscope slides, and curable polymers. In these labs, students could generate polymeric and metallic structures with feature sizes as small as 110 nm.
 

Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education
8:30 AM-11:55 AM, Monday, March 26, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N227B, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007