Continuous Shape Tuning of Nanotetrapods: Toward Shape-Mediated Self-Assembly

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1187-1195

  Mishra, Nimai ^a   Wu, Wen Ya ^a,b   Srinivasan, Bharathi Madurai ^c   Hariharaputran, Ramanarayan ^c   Zhang, Yong Wei ^c   Chan, Yinthai ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE;

MONO-DISPERSE; NANOTETRAPODS; PARTICLE SHAPE AND SIZE; SELF-ASSEMBLY BEHAVIORS; SHAPED PARTICLES; STRONG BINDING; SYNTHETIC ROUTES; TETRAPOD STRUCTURES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 84959010546     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04803     Document Type: Article

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