The site‐specific engineering of colloidal surfaces has provided a powerful approach to
pushing the boundaries of today's materials research. The resulting surface‐anisotropic and …

It has been proven that the use of colloidal templates is a facile, flexible strategy to create the
periodic micro/nanostructured arrays in comparison with photolithography, electron beam …

Thin film deposition is the most ubiquitous and critical of the processes used to manufacture
high-tech devices such as microprocessors, memories, solar cells, microelectromechanical …

Three-dimensional nanostructures can be fabricated by the glancing angle deposition
technique. By rotating the substrate in both polar and azimuthal directions, one can fabricate …

The combination of colloidal lithography and glancing angle deposition facilitates a new
powerful fabrication technique–shadow sphere lithography (SSL), which can greatly expand …

Growth front morphology of a thin film formed by physical vapor deposition is controlled by
many factors including surface diffusion and shadowing effects. Instabilities can occur if …

Thin films fabricated using the glancing angle deposition technique have a porous
microstructure consisting of freestanding columns. Many promising applications of such thin …

Multicomponent rotational nanomotors consisting of Pt‐coated TiO2 nanoarms grown
upon≈ 2.01‐µm‐diameter silica microbeads designed by dynamic shadowing growth are …

Dynamic shadowing growth is a simple and powerful nanofabrication technique that
combines oblique angle deposition with substrate manipulation in a thin film deposition …

Chemical vapor transport (CVT) method is widely used for bulk black phosphorus (BP)
fabrication. In this work, we demonstrate that CVT provides a route for the fabrication of BP …