Template-directed assembly of metal-chalcogenide nanocrystals into ordered mesoporous networks

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4419-4426

  Vamvasakis, Ioannis ^a   Subrahmanyam, Kota S ^b   Kanatzidis, Mercouri G ^b,c   Armatas, Gerasimos S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

mesoporous semiconductors; metal chalcogenides; nanoparticles; self assembly

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; IONIC LIQUIDS; KETONES; LIGHT EMISSION; METAL NANOPARTICLES; METALS; NANOCRYSTALS; NANOPARTICLES; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

HIGH PHOTOCATALYTIC ACTIVITIES; MESOPOROUS SEMICONDUCTORS; METAL AND METAL OXIDE NANOPARTICLES; METAL CHALCOGENIDE; ORDERED MESOPOROUS; ORDERED MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; OXIDATIVE POLYMERIZATION; TEMPLATE-DIRECTED ASSEMBLY;

MESOPOROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 84929121174     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01014     Document Type: Article

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