Exploiting GISAXS for the study of a 3D ordered superlattice of self-assembled colloidal iron oxide nanocrystals

Crystal Growth and Design

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 5505-5512

  Altamura, Davide ^a   Holý, Václav ^b   Siliqi, Dritan ^a   Lekshmi, Indira Chaitanya ^c   Nobile, Concetta ^c   Maruccio, Giuseppe ^c,d   Cozzoli, P Davide ^c,d   Fan, Lixin ^e   Gozzo, Fabia ^f   Giannini, Cinzia ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^e Rigaku Innovative Technologies (RIT)   (United States)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; COLLOIDAL IRON OXIDE; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; GI-SAXS; GRAZING INCIDENCE ANGLE; GRAZING INCIDENCE SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPHERICAL SHAPE; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; VOLUME DIFFRACTION;

IRON OXIDES; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICS; SUPERLATTICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84868692471     PISSN: 15287483     EISSN: 15287505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cg3010739     Document Type: Article

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