Plastic and moldable metals by self-assembly of sticky nanoparticle aggregates

Science

Volumn 316, Issue 5822, 2007, Pages 261-264

  Klajn, Rafal ^a   Bishop, Kyle J M ^a   Fialkowski, Marcin ^a   Paszewski, Maciej ^a   Campbell, Christopher J ^a   Gray, Timothy P ^b   Grzybowski, Bartosz A ^a,b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DITHIOL DERIVATIVE; METAL; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

METAL; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SHAPE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 34247340971     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1139131     Document Type: Article

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25. We thank M. Ratner and G. C. Schatz for helpful discussions, as well as S. Smoukov for his help with nanoindentation experiments. This work was supported by the NSF CAREER (CTS-0547633) Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the Pew Scholarship, and the Sloan Fellowship (to B.A.G.). R.K. was supported by the N5F under the Northwestern Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Award. K.J.M.B. was supported by the NSF Graduate Fellowship. C.J.C. was supported by a Northwestern University Presidential Fellowship.