Evaporation-induced self-assembly of capillary cylindrical colloidal crystal in a face-centered cubic structure with controllable thickness

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1663-1671

  Guo, Wenhua ^a,b   Wang, Ming ^a   Xia, Wei ^a   Dai, Lihua ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

capillary cylindrical crystal; crystalline direction; evaporation induced self assembly; FCC structure; film thickness

Indexed keywords

BULK CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; CRITICAL VALUE; EVAPORATION-INDUCED SELF-ASSEMBLY; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC STRUCTURE; FACE-CENTERED-CUBIC STRUCTURES; FCC STRUCTURES; FILM LAYERS; HOLLOW CYLINDERS; INNER DIAMETERS; PARTICLE ARRANGEMENTS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SOLVENT EVAPORATION MODES; SUSPENSION CONCENTRATIONS;

CAPILLARITY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EVAPORATION; FILM THICKNESS; MONOLAYERS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUALITY CONTROL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84862526933     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2012.128     Document Type: Article

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