Kinetically driven self assembly of highly ordered nanoparticle monolayers

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-270

  Bigioni, Terry P ^a   Lin, Xiao Min ^b   Nguyen, Toan T ^a   Corwin, Eric I ^a,c   Witten, Thomas A ^a,c   Jaeger, Heinrich M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAGNETIC STORAGE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL DEVICES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SENSORS; THIN FILMS;

EVAPORATION KINETICS; LIQUID-AIR INTERFACE; NANOPARTICLE FILMS;

MONOLAYERS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; KINETICS; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TIME; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLLOIDS; KINETICS; MAGNETICS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645645268     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1611     Document Type: Article

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