Hierarchical self-assembly of suspended branched colloidal nanocrystals into superlattice structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 872-876

  Miszta, Karol ^a   De Graaf, Joost ^b   Bertoni, Giovanni ^a   Dorfs, Dirk ^a   Brescia, Rosaria ^a   Marras, Sergio ^a   Ceseracciu, Luca ^a   Cingolani, Roberto ^a   Van Roij, René ^c   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^b   Manna, Liberato ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; NANOCRYSTALS;

BUILDING BLOCKES; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; ELEMENTARY LEVELS; HIERARCHICAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; INORGANIC NANOCRYSTALS; MOLECULAR UNITS; SUITABLE SOLUTIONS; SUPER-LATTICE STRUCTURES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 80054951965     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3121     Document Type: Article

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