Room temperature self-assembly of mixed nanoparticles into photonic structures

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Naqshbandi, Masood ^a   Canning, John ^a   Gibson, Brant C ^b   Nash, Melissa M ^a   Crossley, Maxwell J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; DYE; NANOPARTICLE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; RHODAMINE B; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; COMPOSITE; DIAMOND; DYE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SENSOR; SILICA;

ARTICLE; FORCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; OPTICS; PHOTON; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SENSOR; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

EID: 84870780126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2182     Document Type: Article

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