Highly conductive ribbons prepared by stick-slip assembly of organosoluble gold nanoparticles

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1173-1179

  Lawrence, Jimmy ^a   Pham, Jonathan T ^a   Lee, Dong Yun ^a   Liu, Yujie ^a   Crosby, Alfred J ^a   Emrick, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

conductive nanostructures; directed assemblies; nanomaterials; nanoparticle ribbons; organosoluble nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894613798     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4057726     Document Type: Article

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