Self-assembly of uniform polyhedral silver nanocrystals into densest packings and exotic superlattices

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-137

  Henzie, Joel ^a   Grünwald, Michael ^a   Widmer Cooper, Asaph ^a,b,c   Geissler, Phillip L ^a,b   Yang, Peidong ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GEOMETRY; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ADSORBING POLYMERS; DEPLETION ATTRACTION; DRIVING FORCES; ORDERED SUPERSTRUCTURES; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; POLYMER IN SOLUTION; PRECISE CONTROL; SILVER NANOCRYSTALS;

SILVER;

EID: 84856097490     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3178     Document Type: Article

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