ABSTRACT
LB films serve as potential low energy templates [49, 199-201]. They have an interesting property of changing from a low energy to a relatively high energy one through the absence or presence of dipoles carried by headgroups. This behavior can be utilized to manipulate the effect of these dipolar forces in tuning structures of metal-organics deposited on these templates. It is to be noted that in semiconductor heterostructures, the strain induced in the system can effectively tune the shape [202, 203] as well as band gap [204, 205] of nanocrystals. Similar effect may be observed in case of soft metal-organics, where template-overlayer forces induce nanocrystal formation.
