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Surface Patterning with Colloidal Monolayers

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“There’s plenty of room at the bottom!”[1] With his famous exclamation, Richard Feynman encouraged scientists to set sail to discover and reveal the secrets of a new world: the nanoscale.

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Vogel, N. (2012). Introduction. In: Surface Patterning with Colloidal Monolayers. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35133-4_1

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