Control of crystal nucleation by patterned self-assembled monolayers

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6727, 1999, Pages 495-498

  Aizenberg, Joanna ^a   Black, Andrew J ^b   Whitesides, George M ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MONOLAYERS; NUCLEATION; SOLUTIONS; SUBSTRATES;

CALCIUM CHLORIDE; PATTERNED SELF-ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS;

CRYSTAL GROWTH;

INORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CERAMICS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MONOLAYER CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEMICONDUCTOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033535551     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19047     Document Type: Article

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