Understanding the formation of pentagonal cyclic twinned crystal from the solvent dependent assembly of au nanocrystals into their colloidal crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 3440-3444

  Bao, Shixiong ^a   Zhang, Jiawei ^a   Jiang, Zhiyuan ^a   Zhou, Xi ^a   Xie, Zhaoxiong ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Au nanocrystals; colloidal crystal; pentagonal cyclic twinning; self assembly; thermodynamic analysis

Indexed keywords

AU NANOCRYSTALS; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; CRYSTAL COHESIVE ENERGY; CRYSTALLIZATION MODELING; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; THERMO DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC FACTORS;

COLLOIDS; NANOCRYSTALLINE ALLOYS; NANOCRYSTALS; SELF ASSEMBLY; THERMOANALYSIS;

TWINNING;

EID: 84886030423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz401682q     Document Type: Article

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