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Challenges on Optical Printing of Colloidal Nanoparticles

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2022-02-02 v1 Optics

Abstract

While colloidal chemistry provides ways to obtain a great variety of nanoparticles, with different shapes, sizes, material composition, and surface functions, their controlled deposition and combination on arbitrary positions of substrates remains a considerable challenge. Over the last ten years, optical printing arose as a versatile method to achieve this purpose for different kinds of nanoparticles. In this article we review the state of the art of optical printing of single nanoparticles, and discuss its strengths, limitations, and future perspectives, by focusing on four main challenges: printing accuracy, resolution, selectivity, and nanoparticles photostability.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07533,
  title  = {Challenges on Optical Printing of Colloidal Nanoparticles},
  author = {Ianina L. Violi and Luciana P. Martinez and Mariano Barella and Cecilia Zaza and Lukás Chvátal and Pavel Zemánek and Marina V. Gutiérrez and María Y. Paredes and Alberto F. Scarpettini and Jorge Olmos-Trigo and Valeria R. Pais and Iván Díaz Nóblega and Emiliano Cortes and Juan José Sáenz and Andrea V. Bragas and Julian Gargiulo and Fernando D. Stefani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07533},
  year   = {2022}
}

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The following article has been submitted to The Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at https://aip.scitation.org/journal/jcp

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