Assisted-assembly of coordination materials into advanced nanoarchitectures by Dip Pen nanolithography

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 May 14;47(18):5175-7. doi: 10.1039/c1cc10630a. Epub 2011 Mar 16.

Abstract

Femptolitre droplets deposited on surfaces assisted by an AFM tip are used as reactor vessels to fabricate arrays of nanoarchitectures ranging from single-crystals of metal-organic frameworks to hollow capsules of magnetic polyoxometalates.