Issue 9, 2022

Controlling disorder in self-assembled colloidal monolayers via evaporative processes

Abstract

Monolayers of assembled nano-objects with a controlled degree of disorder hold interest in many optical applications, including photovoltaics, light emission, sensing, and structural coloration. Controlled disorder can be achieved through either top-down or bottom-up approaches, but the latter is more suited to large-scale, low-cost fabrication. Disordered colloidal monolayers can be assembled through evaporatively driven convective assembly, a bottom-up process with a wide range of parameters impacting particle placement. Motivated by the photonic applications of such monolayers, in this review we discuss the quantification of monolayer disorder, and the assembly methods that have been used to produce them. We review the impact of particle and solvent properties, as well as the use of substrate patterning, to create the desired spatial distributions of particles.

Graphical abstract: Controlling disorder in self-assembled colloidal monolayers via evaporative processes

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
26 Nov. 2021
Accepted
12 Janv. 2022
First published
17 Febr. 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 3324-3345

Controlling disorder in self-assembled colloidal monolayers via evaporative processes

L. Roach, A. Hereu, P. Lalanne, E. Duguet, M. Tréguer-Delapierre, K. Vynck and G. L. Drisko, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 3324 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR07814C

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