Self-assembly of magnetite nanocubes into helical superstructures

Science

Volumn 345, Issue 6201, 2014, Pages 1149-1153

  Singh, Gurvinder ^a   Chan, Henry ^b   Baskin, Artem ^b   Gelman, Elijah ^a   Repnin, Nikita ^b   Král, Petr ^b   Klajn, Rafal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETITE; MAGNETITE NANOCUBE; NANOCRYSTAL; NANOMATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARRAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL; MAGNETITE; PEPTIDE; SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ENTROPY; FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84949115930     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254132     Document Type: Article

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