Figure 5: Time-fs superposition during solvent annealing.
From: Rapid fabrication of hierarchically structured supramolecular nanocomposite thin films in one minute
A series of in situ GISAXS studies were conducted on six identical nanocomposite thin films. (a) The grain size of the nanostructure was plotted against the required annealing time to reach certain fs. (b) The GISAXS patterns of three identical thin films treated with different swelling rates. Hierarchically structured nanoparticle assemblies can be readily obtained in 1 min. (c) AFM phase image of a ∼50-nm nanocomposite thin film in lithographically patterned trenches that forms unidirectional nanoparticle arrays over macroscopic distances in 1.5 min. The bright circular dots in the image represent the 5 nm nanoparticles as illustrated by the schematics. Scale bar=100 nm.
