Studies of liquid crystalline self-assembly of GdF3 nanoplates by in-plane, out-of-plane SAXS

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 8322-8330

  Paik, Taejong ^a   Ko, Dong Kyun ^b   Gordon, Thomas R ^a   Doan Nguyen, Vicky ^b   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

liquid crystalline; nanocrystals; nanoplates; SAXS; self assembly; superlattices

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES; COLLOIDAL NANOCRYSTALS; CONTROLLED STRUCTURES; DIRECTED SELF-ASSEMBLY; IN-PLANE; INTERFACIAL ASSEMBLY; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; MACROSCOPIC ORIENTATION; NANOPLATES; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OUT-OF-PLANE; SAXS; SMALL ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SUBPHASES;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; METAMATERIALS; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY SCATTERING;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 80054996690     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn203049t     Document Type: Article

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