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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2020
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Ibm Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiali Zhang, Davis, CA (US);
Victoria A. Puinova, San Jose, CA (US);
Yang Liu, Davis, CA (US);
Jane Frommer, San Jose, CA (US);
Gang-Yu Liu, Davis, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs molecular assembly. During operation, the system delivers one or more droplets of a fluid onto a surface using a nanofluidic delivery probe and an associated high-precision positioning device, wherein the solution comprises a solvent and one or more solute molecules, and wherein delivery of the droplets onto the surface facilitates evaporation-driven assembly of one or more structures on the surface. Moreover, while delivering a droplet onto the surface, the system controls a size of the droplet and a shape of the droplet during evaporation to produce a variety of shapes in resulting structures.