Periodicity-Controlled Two-Dimensional Crystalline Colloidal Arrays
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Abstract
We developed a convenient and fast approach to preparing close-packed two-dimensional (2-D) particle arrays on mercury surfaces. Addition of cosolvents, such as alcohols, to aqueous colloidal particle suspensions induces spreading and self-assembly of the particles into 2-D arrays on top of the mercury surface. We can fabricate large-area close-packed 2-D arrays (>70 cm(2)) within 30 s. We attached these 2-D arrays to functional hydrogel films such that the 2-D array spacings were altered by the hydrogel volume response to the environment. We directly observed the hydrogel volume induced 2-D array spacing changes by using confocal laser scanning microscopy to monitor the spacings of fluorescent polystyrene particle 2-D arrays in response to changes in pH, solvent composition, temperature, etc.
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