Applications of nanostructures

Recommended for reading

Generating Micro- and Nanopatterns on Polymeric Materials

Nanopatterning and Nanoscale Devices for Biological Applications

Nanoimprint Biosensors: The Fusion of Nanofabrication, Nanophotonics, and Nanobiology

Superhydrophobic, self-cleaning, anti-fog, fog collection, anti-icing

Bioinspired self-cleaning surfaces with superhydrophobicity, superoleophobicity, and superhydrophilicity

Natural and biomimetic artificial surfaces for superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning, low adhesion, and drag reduction

Design of Surface Hierarchy for Extreme Hydrophobicity

Fabricating Super-Hydrophobic Lotus-Leaf-Like Surfaces through Soft-Lithographic Imprinting

Nanotextured Silica Surfaces with Robust Superhydrophobicity and Omnidirectional Broadband Supertransmissivity

One-Step Modification of Superhydrophobic Surfaces by a Mussel-Inspired Polymer Coating

Superhydrophobicity and Superhydrophilicity of Regular Nanopatterns

Transparent superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic coatings for self-cleaning and anti-fogging

Self-Cleaning and Next Generation Anti-Fog Surfaces and Coatings

Design and Development of Anti-Icing Aluminum Surface

Design of Ice-free Nanostructured Surfaces Based on Repulsion of Impacting Water Droplets

Icephobic/Anti-Icing Properties of Micro/Nanostructured Surfaces

Liquid-Infused Nanostructured Surfaces with Extreme Anti-Ice and Anti-Frost Performance

Sensors

Sensors Based on Nanostructured Materials

Nanostructured Plasmonic Sensors

Nanostructured Substrates for Optical Sensing

Nanopatterned submicron pores as a shield for nonspecific binding in surface plasmon resonance-based sensing

Plasmonic components fabrication via nanoimprint

Nanoimprinted plastic substrates for enhanced surface plasmon resonance imaging detection

A Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor:  First Steps toward an Assay for Alzheimer’s Disease

Plasmonic Nanostructures Prepared by Soft UV Nanoimprint Lithography and Their Application in Biological Sensing

Anti-reflection

Anti-reflecting and photonic nanostructures

Anti-reflection and hydrophobic characteristics of M-PDMS based moth-eye nano-patterns on protection glass of photovoltaic systems

Biomimetic soft lithography on curved nanostructured surfaces

Reflectance properties of silicon moth-eyes in response to variations in angle of incidence, polarisation and azimuth orientation

Biologically inspired LED lens from cuticular nanostructures of firefly lantern

Effect of anti-reflective nano-patterns on LED package

Moth-eye-structured light-emitting diodes

Low-cost fabrication of large area sub-wavelength anti-reflective structures on polymer film using a soft PUA mold

Omnidirectional antireflection polymer films nanoimprinted by density-graded nanoporous silicon and image improvement in display panel

Gratings

Ultrathin nanogratings enable high-resolution spectral filtering and imaging

Ultrathin Nanostructured Metals for Highly Transmissive Plasmonic Subtractive Color Filters

Cell biology, mostly stem cells

Biomimetic Nanopatterns as Enabling Tools for Analysis and Control of Live Cells

Nano Petri dishes: a new polystyrene platform for studying cell-nanoengineered surface interactions

Cell adhesion and response to synthetic nanopatterned environments by steering receptor clustering and spatial location

Cell directional migration and oriented division on three-dimensional laser-induced periodic surface structures on polystyrene

Direct differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into selective neurons on nanoscale ridge/groove pattern arrays

Effects of nanoimprinted patterns in tissue-culture polystyrene on cell behavior

Engineering the cell-material interface for controlling stem cell adhesion, migration, and differentiation

Influence of nanopatterns on endothelial cell adhesion: Enhanced cell retention under shear stress

Nanopattern-induced changes in morphology and motility of smooth muscle cells

Proliferation of aligned mammalian cells on laser-nanostructured polystyrene

Self-renewal of embryonic stem cells through culture on nanopattern polydimethylsiloxane substrate

Synthetic Nanostructures Inducing Differentiation of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Neuronal Lineage

Nanopatterns embedded into more complex systems

A multispectral resonant waveguide nanopatterned chip for robust oil quality monitoring

Digital spectrometer-on-chip fabricated by step and repeat nanoimprint lithography on pre-spin coated films

Nanoimprint lithography for the fabrication of DNA electrophoresis chips

Nanopatterned polymethylpentene substrates fabricated by injection molding for biophotonic applications

On-chip electrochemical detection of bio/chemical molecule by nanostructures fabricated in a microfluidic channel

Nanostructures in protein chips: Effect of print buffer additive and wettability on immobilization and assay performance

Quenching effect on gold nano-patterned cardiac troponin I chip by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

Wide-range quantification of human thyroid-stimulating hormone using gold-nanopatterned single-molecule sandwich immunoassay chip

This is a brief list of papers that do not cover many other interesting applications, for example nanowire grid polarizers or structural colors.