Artist's Rpresentation of the Blade Coating Solution Process to Produce Single Molecular Bilayer Thi (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Artist's Rpresentation of the Blade Coating Solution Process to Produce Single Molecular Bilayer Thi

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Liquid molecules are spread by a blade over the production surface at room temperature and standard air pressure in a technique called solution processing. As the liquid dries, the inter-molecular forces cause the molecules to automatically arrange themselves into geometrically frustrated single bilayers just 4.4 nanometers thick.

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Shunto Arai and Tatsuo Hasegawa

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