Co-assembly of oppositely charged particles into linear clusters and chains of controllable length

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bharti, Bhuvnesh ^a,b   Findenegg, Gerhard H ^b   Velev, Orlin D ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84871752021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01004     Document Type: Article

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