%0 Journal Article
%T Parallel- and serial-contact electrochemical metallization of monolayer nanopatterns: A versatile synthetic tool en route to bottom-up assembly of electric nanocircuits
%A Jonathan Berson
%A Assaf Zeira
%A Rivka Maoz
%A Jacob Sagiv
%J Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.3762/bjnano.3.14
%X Contact electrochemical transfer of silver from a metal-film stamp (parallel process) or a metal-coated scanning probe (serial process) is demonstrated to allow site-selective metallization of monolayer template patterns of any desired shape and size created by constructive nanolithography. The precise nanoscale control of metal delivery to predefined surface sites, achieved as a result of the selective affinity of the monolayer template for electrochemically generated metal ions, provides a versatile synthetic tool en route to the bottom-up assembly of electric nanocircuits. These findings offer direct experimental support to the view that, in electrochemical metal deposition, charge is carried across the electrode¨Csolution interface by ion migration to the electrode rather than by electron transfer to hydrated ions in solution.
%K AFM (SFM)
%K bipolar electrochemistry
%K electrochemical metal deposition
%K monolayer patterning
%K nanolithography
%K self-assembled organosilane monolayers
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.3.14