Polymer-guided assembly of inorganic nanoparticles

C Yi, Y Yang, B Liu, J He, Z Nie - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles is of great importance in realizing their
enormous potentials for broad applications due to the advanced collective properties of …

Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Self-assembly of magnetite nanocubes into helical superstructures

G Singh, H Chan, A Baskin, E Gelman, N Repnin… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Organizing inorganic nanocrystals into complex architectures is challenging and typically
relies on preexisting templates, such as properly folded DNA or polypeptide chains. We …

Magic number colloidal clusters as minimum free energy structures

J Wang, CF Mbah, T Przybilla, B Apeleo Zubiri… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Clusters in systems as diverse as metal atoms, virus proteins, noble gases, and nucleons
have properties that depend sensitively on the number of constituent particles. Certain …

Controlled hierarchical self-assembly of nanoparticles and chiral molecules into tubular nanocomposites

Y Bi, C Cheng, Z Zhang, R Liu, J Wei… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this work, we show how the kinetics of molecular self-assembly can be coupled with the
kinetics of the colloidal self-assembly of inorganic nanoparticles, which in turn drives the …

Nonviral In Vivo Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Using Protein-Agnostic, High-Loading Porous Silicon and Polymer Nanoparticles

RB Fletcher, LD Stokes, IB Kelly III, KM Henderson… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The complexity of CRISPR machinery is a challenge to its application for nonviral in vivo
therapeutic gene editing. Here, we demonstrate that proteins, regardless of size or charge …

“Graphene Bubble Bridging” Enabled Flexible Multifunctional Carbon Fiber Membrane Toward K+ Storage Devices

Y Song, Y Wu, Y Wang, Y Jia, H Gou… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Widespread integration of carbon‐based membranes into prevailing fields like energy
storage and material engineering is thwarted by a lack of functionality, customization, and …

Electric-field-assisted assembly of polymer-tethered gold nanorods in cylindrical nanopores

K Wang, SM **, J Xu, R Liang, K Shezad, Z Xue… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this report, we demonstrate the confined assembly of polymer-tethered gold nanorods in
anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) channels with the assistance of electric field (EF). Various …

Ultrasonication‐induced self‐assembled fixed nanogap arrays of monomeric plasmonic nanoparticles inside nanopores

NN Nam, TL Bui, SJ Son, SW Joo - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Monomeric gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanoparticle (NP) arrays are self‐assembled uniformly
into anodized aluminium oxide (AAO) nanopores with a high homogeneity of greater than …

CO2 dissociation in a packed-bed plasma reactor: effects of operating conditions

S Xu, PI Khalaf, PA Martin… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
An extensive study of CO 2 conversion in a non-thermal, barium titanate packed-bed plasma
reactor was conducted to investigate the influence of discharge power, gas flow rate and Ar …