Directed assembly of gold nanoparticles

Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 126-134

  Westerlund, Fredrik ^a   Bjørnholm, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY TECHNIQUES; BUILDING BLOCKS; CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; DIRECTED ASSEMBLIES; GOLD NANO PARTICLES; NANO-SCALE STRUCTURES; NANOROD ASSEMBLIES; OPTICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; THREE DIMENSIONS; TOP DOWNS;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS;

GOLD;

EID: 60449085234     PISSN: 13590294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2008.07.002     Document Type: Review

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