Self-Assembly of Nanoclusters into Mono-, Few-, and Multilayered Sheets via Dipole-Induced Asymmetric van der Waals Attraction

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 6315-6323

  Wu, Zhennan ^a   Liu, Jiale ^a   Li, Yanchun ^a   Cheng, Ziyi ^a   Li, Tingting ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a   Lu, Zhongyuan ^a   Yang, Bai ^a  

^a Jilin University   (China)

Author keywords

anisotropic vdW attraction; nanocluster; nanosheet; self assembly; two dimensional material

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIGANDS; NANOCLUSTERS; NANOSHEETS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

2D SELF-ASSEMBLY; ANISOTROPIC VDW ATTRACTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COLLOIDAL SOLUTIONS; LAYERED STRUCTURES; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS; VAN DER WAALS ATTRACTION;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84934992820     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b01823     Document Type: Article

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