Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5783, 2006, Pages 80-83

  Jonkheijm, Pascal ^a,b   Van Der Schoot, Paul ^a   Schenning, Albertus P H J ^a   Meijer, E W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NUCLEATION; PROBES; SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

HIERARCHICAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLVENT-ASSISTED NUCLEATION; SUPRAMOLECULAR FIBRILLAR STRUCTURES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

NANOPARTICLE;

MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION; SOLVENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; FIBER; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 33745922377     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127884     Document Type: Article

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