Advanced Materials, Vol.17, No.23, 2881-2881, 2005
Self-organized patterning: Regular and spatially tunable luminescent submicrometer stripes over large areas
Self-organized luminescent stripe patterns (see Figure) with submicrometer-scale lateral dimensions are obtained by transferring dye/phosphatidylcholine mixed monolayers onto a solid substrate by means of Langmuir-Blodgett deposition. The regular luminescent stripe formation can be interpreted as a substrate-induced microphase separation and a periodic oscillation of the meniscus at the three-phase contact line.