Hierarchical nanoparticle assemblies formed by decorating breath figures

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 302-306

  Böker, Alexander ^a   Lin, Yao ^a   Chiapperini, Kristen ^b   Horowitz, Reina ^c   Thompson, Mike ^d   Carreon, Vincent ^e   Xu, Ting ^a   Abetz, Clarissa ^f   Skaff, Habib ^a   Dinsmore, A D ^a   Emrick, Todd ^a   Russell, Thomas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Brockton High School   (United States)

^c Springfield Central High School   (United States)

^d Amherst Regional High School   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CATALYSIS; CONDENSATION; EVAPORATION; FLUORESCENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYMERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); SELF ASSEMBLY; SENSORS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BREATH FIGURES; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; HIERARCHICAL NANOPARTICLES; SPHERICAL CAVITIES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SELENIDE; NANOTUBE; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE; SELENIUM DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EVALUATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; SYNTHESIS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSTYRENES; POROSITY; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE TENSION; WATER;

EID: 2342653518     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1110     Document Type: Article

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