Figure 13.

Nanopatterns generated by AFM nanolithography on a peptide self-assembled monolayer on mica surface.

Notes: (A) Parallel linear scratches with length of 4 µm. The lower panel is the line profile analysis of the section marked by white line, indicating the depth of scratches was about 2–3 nm, the length of a peptide monomer. (B) A more complicated word pattern “NANO” is shown. Scale bars=5 µm. Republished with permission of Bentham Science Publishers, from Curr Nanosci, Xing Z, Chen Y, Tang C, Gong X, Qiu F, 10(2), Fabrication of peptide self-assembled monolayer on mica surface and its application in atomic force microscopy nanolithogrsaphy, 2014; permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.¹³⁰

Abbreviation: AFM, atomic force microscopy.