Colloidal nanocube supercrystals stabilized by multipolar Coulombic coupling

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 4203-4213

  Chan, Henry ^a   Demortière, Arnaud ^b,c   Vukovic, Lela ^a   Král, Petr ^a   Petit, Christophe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6 Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge transfer; Molecular dynamics; Multipolar coupling; Nanocubes; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COULOMBIC COUPLING; EDGE LENGTH; FORCE FIELDS; LOWER DENSITY; MULTIPOLAR COUPLING; NANOCUBES; OCTYLAMINES; SIMPLE CUBIC PACKING;

CHARGE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SELF ASSEMBLY; TOLUENE;

PLATINUM;

EID: 84864662784     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn3007338     Document Type: Article

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