Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 979-985

  Zhao, Yue ^a   Thorkelsson, Kari ^a   Mastroianni, Alexander J ^a,b,c   Schilling, Thomas ^a   Luther, Joseph M ^b,c   Rancatore, Benjamin J ^a,b,c   Matsunaga, Kazuyuki ^d   Jinnai, Hiroshi ^d,e   Wu, Yue ^b   Poulsen, Daniel ^b   Fréchet, Jean M J ^b,c   Paul Alivisatos, A ^b,c   Xu, Ting ^a,b,c  

^a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; MOLECULES; NANOCOMPOSITES; SURFACE TREATMENT;

FABRICATION PROCESS; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; NANOSCOPIC BUILDING BLOCKS; SPATIAL ORGANIZATION; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 70450281271     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2565     Document Type: Article

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