Self-organization of highly symmetric nanoassemblies: A matter of competition

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3869-3875

  Galván Moya, Jesus E ^a   Altantzis, Thomas ^a   Nelissen, Kwinten ^a   Peeters, Francois M ^a   Grzelczak, Marek ^b,c   Liz Marzán, Luis M ^b,c   Bals, Sara ^a   Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b CIC BIOMAGUNE   (Spain)

^c BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

electron tomography; gold nanoparticles; Monte Carlo simulations; pairwise interaction; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOPARTICLES; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ELECTRON TOMOGRAPHY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INDIVIDUAL NANOPARTICLES; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; MORPHOLOGY AND COMPOSITION; PAIRWISE INTERACTION; STRUCTURAL CONFIGURATIONS; STRUCTURE AND CONFIGURATION;

SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

EID: 84899435835     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn500715d     Document Type: Article

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