Achieving 3-D Nanoparticle Assembly in Nanocomposite Thin Films via Kinetic Control

Macromolecules

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2183-2188

  Huang, Jingyu ^a   Xiao, Yihan ^a   Xu, Ting ^a,b,c  

^a University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COMPOSITE FILMS; KINETICS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SURFACE DEFECTS;

FUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES; HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLIES; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS; NANOPARTICLE ASSEMBLIES; NONEQUILIBRIUM STATE; POLYMERIC MATRICES; SINGLE POLYMER CHAINS; SURFACE AGGREGATION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 85015297691     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: 15205835     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00063     Document Type: Article

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