Electrostatic self-assembly of macroscopic crystals using contact electrification

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 241-245

  Grzybowski, Bartosz A ^a   Winkleman, Adam ^a   Wiles, Jason A ^a   Brumer, Yisroel ^a   Whitesides, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTROSTATICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CONTACT ELECTRIFICATION; ELECTROSTATIC SELF ASSEMBLY; MACROSCOPIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE;

CAPROLACTAM; DRUG DERIVATIVE; MICROSPHERE; POLICAPRAM; POLITEF; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CAPROLACTAM; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTROSTATICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICROSPHERES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYMERS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0037868902     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat860     Document Type: Letter

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