Couples of colloidal semiconductor nanorods formed by self-limited assembly

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 301-307

  Jia, Guohua ^a   Sitt, Amit ^a,b   Hitin, Gal B ^a   Hadar, Ido ^a   Bekenstein, Yehonadav ^a   Amit, Yorai ^a   Popov, Inna ^a   Banin, Uri ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 84894427257     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3867     Document Type: Article

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