Colloidal polymers from dipolar assembly of cobalt-tipped CdSe@CdS nanorods

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3272-3284

  Hill, Lawrence J ^a   Richey, Nathaniel E ^a   Sung, Younghun ^b   Dirlam, Philip T ^a   Griebel, Jared J ^a   Lavoie Higgins, Eli ^a   Shim, In Bo ^c   Pinna, Nicola ^d   Willinger, Marc Georg ^e   Vogel, Walter ^f   Benkoski, Jason J ^g   Char, Kookheon ^b   Pyun, Jeffrey ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c Kookmin University   (South Korea)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloidal polymers; dipolar assembly; ferromagnetic nanoparticles; heterostructured nanorods; nanoparticle assembly

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; CHAINS; COBALT; COPOLYMERS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOPARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

COBALT NANOPARTICLES; DIPOLAR ASSEMBLIES; FERROMAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES; HETEROSTRUCTURED NANORODS; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; PHASE SEPARATED MORPHOLOGY; POLYMER COMPOSITION; SYNTHETIC CONTROL;

NANORODS;

EID: 84899421392     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn406104d     Document Type: Article

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