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Nano-chemistry and scanning probe nanolithographies

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This tutorial review presents the most promising probe-based nanolithographies that are based on the spatial confinement of a chemical reaction within a nanometer-size region of the sample surface.
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The development of nanometer-scale lithographies is the focus of an intense research activity because progress on nanotechnology depends on the capability to fabricate, position and interconnect nanometer-scale structures. The unique imaging and manipulation properties of atomic force microscopes have prompted the emergence of several scanning probe-based nanolithographies. In this tutorial review we present the most promising probe-based nanolithographies that are based on the spatial confinement of a chemical reaction within a nanometer-size region of the sample surface. The potential of local chemical nanolithography in nanometer-scale science and technology is illustrated by describing a range of applications such as the fabrication of conjugated molecular wires, optical microlenses, complex quantum devices or tailored chemical surfaces for controlling biorecognition processes.

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"Dip-Pen" Nanolithography

TL;DR: A direct-write "dip-pen" nanolithography (DPN) has been developed to deliver collections of molecules in a positive printing mode, making DPN a potentially useful tool for creating and functionalizing nanoscale devices.
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The evolution of dip-pen nanolithography.

TL;DR: The Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) is a direct-write tool for generating surface-patterned chemical functionality on the sub-100 nm length-scale as discussed by the authors.
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Modification of hydrogen-passivated silicon by a scanning tunneling microscope operating in air

TL;DR: In this paper, the chemical modification of hydrogen-passivated n-Si surfaces by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) operating in air is reported, and the modified surface regions have been characterized by STM spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF SIMS), and chemical etch/Nomarski microscopy.
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Patterning: Principles and Some New Developments

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