Properties and emerging applications of self-assembled structures made from inorganic nanoparticles

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-25

  Nie, Zhihong ^a   Petukhova, Alla ^a   Kumacheva, Eugenia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMAGNETICS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; INORGANIC NANOPARTICLE; MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; NANOPARTICLE SELF-ASSEMBLY; SELF ASSEMBLED STRUCTURES; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES;

STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES;

INORGANIC COMPOUND; NANOPARTICLE;

ELECTRIC FIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 73849117225     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2009.453     Document Type: Review

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