Mapping nanostructure: A systematic enumeration of nanomaterials by assembling nanobuilding blocks at crystallographic positions

ACS Nano

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1237-1251

  Sayle, Dean C ^a   Seal, Sudipta ^b   Wang, Zhongwu ^c   Mangili, Benoît C ^a   Price, David W ^d   Karakoti, Ajay S ^b,e   Kuchibhatla, Satyanarayana V T N ^b,e   Hao, Quan ^c   Möbus, Günter ^f   Xu, Xiaojing ^f   Sayle, Thi X T ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d AWE   (United Kingdom)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomistic model; Crystallography; Electron microscopy; Mesostructure; Molecular dynamics; Nanobuilding blocks; Nanostructure; Oxide; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

CERIUM ALLOYS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MINERALOGY; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES;

ATOMISTIC MODELLING; BODY-CENTERED-CUBIC (BCC); COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC SITES; DESIRED POSITION; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC (FCC); HYPOTHETICAL STRUCTURES; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); NANO BUILDING BLOCKS; NANO PARTICLES; NANO STRUCTURING; NANO-MATERIALS; NANOPARTICLE ARRAYS; NUMERICAL TOOLS; ORDERED ARRAYS; SELF ASSEMBLING; SIMULATION STRATEGIES; SUPERLATTICE (SL); SYSTEMATIC (CO);

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 47649099685     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn800065g     Document Type: Article

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