Nanoimprint lithography 20 years on

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of nanoimprint lithography (NIL) we present a perspective of how the technique and its prospects have evolved over the past two decades. We describe how it overcame certain fabrication challenges at the time it was first reported and look at some of the obstacles that hindered uptake in industry initially, as well as likely sectors for future successful commercial deployment. Developments in the technique since that are making NIL increasingly attractive such as ‘moving roll to roll’ for higher throughput, are also described.

Qiangfei Xia and R Fabian Pease

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Label-free screening of single biomolecules through resistive pulse sensing technology for precision medicine applications

Employing integrated nano- and microfluidic circuits for detecting and characterizing biological compounds through resistive pulse sensing technology is a vibrant area of research at the interface of biotechnology and nanotechnology. Resistive pulse sensing platforms can be customized to study virtually any particle of choice which can be threaded through a fluidic channel and enable label-free single-particle interrogation with the primary read-out signal being an electric current fingerprint. The ability to perform label-free molecular screening with single-molecule and even single binding site resolution makes resistive pulse sensing technology a powerful tool for analyzing the smallest units of biological systems and how they interact with each other on a molecular level. This task is at the core of experimental systems biology and in particular ‘omics research which in combination with next-generation DNA-sequencing and next-generation drug discovery and design forms the fou...

S Harrer, S C Kim, C Schieber, S Kannam, N Gunn, S Moore, D Scott, R Bathgate, S Skafidas and J M Wagner

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Thiolate versus Selenolate: Structure, Stability, and Charge Transfer Properties

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01109

Jakub Ossowski, Tobias Wächter, Laura Silies, Martin Kind, Agnieszka Noworolska, Florian Blobner, Dominika Gnatek, Jakub Rysz, Michael Bolte, Peter Feulner, Andreas Terfort, Piotr Cyganik and Michael Zharnikov

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Controlled Preferential Oxidation of Grain Boundaries in Monolayer Tungsten Disulfide for Direct Optical Imaging

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00852

Youmin Rong, Kuang He, Mercè Pacios, Alex W. Robertson, Harish Bhaskaran and Jamie H. Warner

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Density of Trap States and Auger-mediated Electron Trapping in CdTe Quantum-Dot Solids

Nano Letters

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00050

Simon C. Boehme, Jon Mikel Azpiroz, Yaroslav Aulin, Ferdinand C. Grozema, Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, Laurens D.A. Siebbeles, Ivan Infante and Arjan J. Houtepen

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Origin of High Mobility in Molybdenum-Doped Indium Oxide

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/cm503896h

Davinder S. Bhachu, David O. Scanlon, Gopinathan Sankar, T. D. Veal, Russell G. Egdell, Giannantonio Cibin, Andrew J. Dent, Caroline E. Knapp, Claire J. Carmalt and Ivan P. Parkin

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In Situ Neutron Diffraction Monitoring of Li7La3Zr2O12 Formation: Toward a Rational Synthesis of Garnet Solid Electrolytes.

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00149

R. Prasada Rao, Wenyi Gu, Neeraj Sharma, Vanessa K. Peterson, Maxim Avdeev and Stefan Adams

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Layered Oxychlorides [PbBiO2]An+1BnO3n–1Cl2 (A = Pb/Bi, B = Fe/Ti): Intergrowth of the Hematophanite and Sillen Phases

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00233

Maria Batuk, Dmitry Batuk, Alexander A. Tsirlin, Dmitry S. Filimonov, Denis V. Sheptyakov, Matthias Frontzek, Joke Hadermann and Artem M. Abakumov

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Molecular Design of a Porphyrin Dimer with Features of P-Type and N-Type Heterojunctions by Chiral l-Glutamic Acid Induced Action

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b02613

Ximing Guo and Bin Guo

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Toward the Design of Highly Stable Small Colloidal SERS Substrates with Supramolecular Host–Guest Interactions for Ultrasensitive Detection

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01647

Juan C. Fraire, Valeria N. Sueldo Ocello, Leandro G. Allende, Alicia V. Veglia and Eduardo A. Coronado

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Solid-State Physics Perspective on Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00695

Jacky Even, Laurent Pedesseau, Claudine Katan, Mikaël Kepenekian, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, Daniel Sapori and Emmanuelle Deleporte

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Unveiling Structural Evolution of CO Adsorption on Ru(0001) with High-Resolution STM

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/jp5117432

Qiwei Chen, Jing Liu, Xiong Zhou, Jian Shang, Yajie Zhang, Xiang Shao, Yongfeng Wang, Jianlong Li, Wei Chen, Guoqin Xu and Kai Wu

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Metal Substitution Effects on the Charge Transport and Spin Crossover Properties of [Fe1–xZnx(Htrz)2(trz)](BF4) (trz = Triazole)

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01117

Constantin Lefter, Simon Tricard, Haonan Peng, Gábor Molnár, Lionel Salmon, Philippe Demont, Aurelian Rotaru and Azzedine Bousseksou

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Young’s Modulus, Residual Stress, and Crystal Orientation of Doubly Clamped Silicon Nanowire Beams

Nano Letters

DOI: 10.1021/nl5047939

Y. Calahorra, O. Shtempluck, V. Kotchetkov and Y. E. Yaish

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Three-Dimensional Nanostructured Air Electrode for Sodium–Oxygen Batteries: A Mechanism Study toward the Cyclability of the Cell

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00435

Hossein Yadegari, Mohammad Norouzi Banis, Biwei Xiao, Qian Sun, Xia Li, Andrew Lushington, Biqiong Wang, Ruying Li, Tsun-Kong Sham, Xiaoyu Cui and Xueliang Sun

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Influence of Support Effects on CO Oxidation Kinetics on CO-Saturated Graphene-Supported Pt13 Nanoclusters

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00029

Ioanna Fampiou and Ashwin Ramasubramaniam

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Nonadditivity of Temperature Dependent Interactions in Inorganic Ionic Clusters

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01999

Vitaly V. Chaban and Oleg V. Prezhdo

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Inducing a Finite In-Plane Piezoelectricity in Graphene with Low Concentration of Inversion Symmetry-Breaking Defects

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01471

Kh. E. El-Kelany, Ph. Carbonnière, A. Erba and M. Rérat

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A Strategy to Stabilize Kesterite CZTS for High-Performance Solar Cells

Chemistry of Materials

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00172

Kuang Yu and Emily A. Carter

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