Patents by Inventor Chard A. Mirkin

Chard A. Mirkin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patterning of solid state features by direct write nanolithographic printing
    Publication number: 20030162004
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of fabricating organic/inorganic composite nanostructures on a substrate comprising depositing a solution having a block copolymer and an inorganic precursor on the substrate using dip pen nanolithography. The nanostructures comprises arrays of lines and/or dots having widths/diameters less than 1 micron. The present invention also includes a device comprising an organic/inorganic composite nanoscale region chemically bonded to a substrate, wherein the nanoscale region, wherein the nanoscale region has a nanometer scale dimension other than height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Chard A. Mirkin, Vinayak P. Dravid, Ming Su, Xiaogang Liu