Phys.org   May 7, 2024 Underwater adhesion processes have faced challenges to uniformly transfer nanoparticles into a monolayer, particularly those below 100 nm in size, over large areas. Researchers in South Korea have developed a scalable “one-shot” self-limiting nanoparticle transfer technique, enabling the efficient transport of nanoparticles from water in microscopic volumes to an entire 2-inch wafer in a remarkably short time of 10 seconds to reach near-maximal surface coverage in a 2D mono-layered fashion. They used proton engineering in electrostatic assembly which accelerated the diffusion of nanoparticles resulting in a hundredfold faster coating speed than the previously reported results in […]