Quasicrystalline order in self-assembled binary nanoparticle superlattices

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7266, 2009, Pages 964-967

  Talapin, Dmitri V ^a,b   Shevchenko, Elena V ^b   Bodnarchuk, Maryna I ^a   Ye, Xingchen ^c   Chen, Jun ^d   Murray, Christopher B ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Chemistry ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER; DENDRIMER; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; GOLD; PALLADIUM; POLYMER; SYMMETRY; TANTALUM; TELLURIDE; WETTING;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 70350077689     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08439     Document Type: Article

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