Anisotropy of building blocks and their assembly into complex structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 557-562

  Glotzer, Sharon C ^a   Solomon, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BUILDING BLOCKS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; COMPLEX STRUCTURES; ISOTROPIC SPHERICAL COLLOIDS;

ANISOTROPY;

EID: 34547604210     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1949     Document Type: Article

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