Nanoparticle-controlled aggregation of colloidal tetrapods

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1743-1748

  Sinkovits, Daniel W ^a   Luijten, Erik ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

cluster algorithm; Monte Carlo; nanorods; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BUILDING BLOCKES; CHARGED NANOPARTICLES; CLUSTER ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; GAS/LIQUID INTERFACE; MONTE CARLO; NANO SCALE; REGULAR STRUCTURE; SIMULATION METHODS;

NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AGGLOMERATION;

NANOPARTICLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; COLLOIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84859724705     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl200961z     Document Type: Article

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