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SBPMat BRAZIL-MRS 2nd Brazilian MRS Meeting October 26-29, 2003 Symposium A: Current trends in Nanostructured Materials and Systems II Symposium Organizers:____________________________________________________ Fernando Lázaro Freire Jr. (PUC-Rio) Guillermo Solórzano (PUC-Rio, SBPMat) Israel Baumvol (UFRGS) Wander Vasconcelos (UFMG) iNVITED PRESENTATIONS A-I1 Self-assembling systems and surface patterning strategies for Nanotechnologies Giovanni Marletta, Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche - University of Catania - Viale A.Doria 6 - I-95125 Catania – Italy The need for very large scale planar integration of different functions in multifunctional devices including electronic devices, arrays of biosensors, highly integrated optoelectronic devices, etc.., is driving a growing effort towards techniques for surface patterning. Two basically different philosophies of patterning have been extensively developed, respectively exploiting self-organization properties of matter (bottom-up approach), and radiation-based lithography (top-down approach). In the present paper we report a number of case studies dealing with the use of techniques as Langmuir-Blodgett deposition (LB), SPM tip-writing and focused-ion beam activation of surfaces to obtain micro- and nanoscale spatially resolved structures. In particular, we will report specific cases of unusual self-structuring of LB-deposited monolayers on solid surfaces, of tip-induced chemical patterning of organic monolayers on silicon, and spontaneous protein aggregation on ion-irradiated polymer dots. The formation of various structures, as variously shaped domains, stripes, fibers and dots, will be related to the molecular structure of the employed compounds, the deposition parameters, and the substrate composition and properties obtained by Near Field Microscopies (NFM), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Imaging ToF-SIMS, Dynamic Contact angle measurements, Surface Enhanced R