Nanowires: Generating Aligned Micellar Nanowire Arrays by Dewetting of Micropatterned Surfaces (Small 9/2014)

A novel, simple, and low-cost method is presented by P. E. Boukany and co-workers to generate a large array of laterally ordered soft nanowires from worm-like micelles. These micellar nanowires can be successfully decorated with hydrophobic molecules that incorporate into the micelle core or with hydrophilic nanoparticles such as quantum dots entrapped in the corona. This platform, described in detail on page 1729, should enable new opportunities in functional nanoscale devices, especially bio-chemical sensors