Mikhail Ladanov's Weblog

This is an AFM image of a stamp made from polymer. I want to try it for microcontact printing of seeding layer for ZnO NW growth.

I was trying to grow ZnO nanowires using a new set up, but apparently messed up somewhere putting the seeding layer on the surface. In this picture, as far as I can tell, ZnO nanowires grew around a ZnO nanocrystall. Though the form and the shape of nanowires are what I was looking for, I’d rather have them growing from the susbtrate.