The role of interparticle and external forces in nanoparticle assembly

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 527-538

  Min, Younjin ^a   Akbulut, Mustafa ^b   Kristiansen, Kai ^a   Golan, Yuval ^c   Israelachvili, Jacob ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; LARGE SCALE COMPUTATION; LOWEST ENERGY STATE; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; NANOSCALE STRUCTURE; SELF- AND DIRECTED-ASSEMBLY;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 45849146155     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2206     Document Type: Article

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