Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
A technique that selectively alters the wetting characteristics of a surface provides a simple but potentially powerful means of patterning organic materials for electronics and other device applications.
A positioning technique that takes a marked carbon nanotube and places it in a pre-fabricated circuit may be a viable strategy for assembling many nano- and micron- scaled devices.