Self-assembly of metal-polymer analogues of amphiphilic triblock copolymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 609-614

  Nie, Zhihong ^a   Fava, Daniele ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a,b   Zou, Shan ^a   Walker, Gilbert C ^a   Rubinstein, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMPHIPHILIC TRIBLOCK COPOLYMERS; ANISOTROPIC NANOPARTICLES; FUNCTIONAL DEVICES; NANOROD ARRAYS;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

METAL; NANOPARTICLE; POLYMER; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY;

METALS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS;

EID: 34547591529     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1954     Document Type: Article

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