Shaping colloids for self-assembly

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sacanna, Stefano ^a   Korpics, Mark ^a   Rodriguez, Kelvin ^a   Colón Meléndez, Laura ^b   Kim, Seung Hyun ^c   Pine, David J ^a   Yi, Gi Ra ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BUILDING; COATING; COLLOID; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMERIZATION;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; DISSOLUTION; POLYMERIZATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84877730460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2694     Document Type: Article

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