Unknown aspects of self-assembly of PbS microscale superstructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 3800-3812

  Querejeta Fernàndez, Ana ^a   Hernàndez Garrido, Juan C ^b   Yang, Hengxi ^a   Zhou, Yunlong ^a   Varela, Aurea ^c   Parras, Marina ^c   Calvino Gàmez, Josè J ^b   Gonzàlez Calbet, Jose M ^c   Green, Peter F ^a   Kotov, Nicholas A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assembly patterns; Deconstruction; Disassembly; Hierarchical; Ionic liquids; Mesocrystals; Nanoparticles; Nanorods; PbS; Self assembly; Solar cells; Supraparticles

Indexed keywords

DECONSTRUCTION; DISASSEMBLY; HIERARCHICAL; MESOCRYSTALS; PBS; SUPRAPARTICLES;

IONIC LIQUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; NANORODS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SOLAR CELLS; STARS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

LEAD; LEAD SULFIDE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LEAD; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SULFIDES;

EID: 84864667358     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn300890s     Document Type: Article

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