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Fabrication of Nickel Nanostructure Arrays Via a Modified
Nanosphere Lithography  Xueyong Wei*, Xianzhong Chen and Kyle
Jiang  Author affiliations  Bio Medical and Micro Engineering
Research Centre, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK  For all author emails,
please log on.  Citation and License  Nanoscale Res Lett 2011,
6:25  doi:10.1007/s11671-010-9770-3   Received:22 July 2010
Accepted:17 August 2010 Published:2 September 2010  © 2010 Wei
et al.    In this paper, we present a modified nanosphere
lithographic scheme that is based on the self-assembly and
electroforming techniques. The scheme was demonstrated to
fabricate a nickel template of ordered nanobowl arrays together
with a nickel nanostructure array-patterned glass substrate. The
hemispherical nanobowls exhibit uniform sizes and smooth
interior surfaces, and the shallow nanobowls