{"id":234086,"date":"2026-03-26T02:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/laser-modified-graphene-enables-molecule-thick-films-to-grow-only-where-needed"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T07:25:25","slug":"laser-modified-graphene-enables-molecule-thick-films-to-grow-only-where-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/laser-modified-graphene-enables-molecule-thick-films-to-grow-only-where-needed","title":{"rendered":"Laser-modified graphene enables molecule-thick films to grow only where needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/laser-modified-graphene-enables-molecule-thick-films-to-grow-only-where-needed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 and Aalto University have developed a new method based on laser modification, which allows metal-organic materials to be grown locally one molecule-thick layer at a time. The method enables the precise construction of films of different shapes and offers new ways to modify the properties of materials for various applications. The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c22728\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal ACS Nano.<\/p>\n<p>Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method used especially in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-atomic-layer-deposition-route-scalable.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">semiconductor industry<\/a> to produce high-quality thin films with atomic layer accuracy. The method was developed in the 1970s by the Finnish Tuomo Suntola, and it has since become an important technology.<\/p>\n<p>In ALD, thin films are grown one atomic layer at a time through controlled chemical reactions between the reactants, as well as their interactions with the surface. This so-called bottom-up method allows for precise film thickness adjustment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4 and Aalto University have developed a new method based on laser modification, which allows metal-organic materials to be grown locally one molecule-thick layer at a time. The method enables the precise construction of films of different shapes and offers new ways to modify the properties of materials for various [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}