Self-assembly of colloidal nanocrystals: from intricate structures to functional materials

MA Boles, M Engel, DV Talapin - Chemical reviews, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Chemical methods developed over the past two decades enable preparation of colloidal
nanocrystals with uniform size and shape. These Brownian objects readily order into …

Self-assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles into functional superstructures

K Deng, Z Luo, L Tan, Z Quan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and
promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of …

Self-assembly of polyhedral metal–organic framework particles into three-dimensional ordered superstructures

C Avci, I Imaz, A Carné-Sánchez, JA Pariente… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Self-assembly of particles into long-range, three-dimensional, ordered superstructures is
crucial for the design of a variety of materials, including plasmonic sensing materials, energy …

Predictive self-assembly of polyhedra into complex structures

PF Damasceno, M Engel, SC Glotzer - Science, 2012‏ - science.org
Predicting structure from the attributes of a material's building blocks remains a challenge
and central goal for materials science. Isolating the role of building block shape for self …

Thermodynamics versus kinetics in nanosynthesis

Y Wang, J He, C Liu, WH Chong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
One may discover a stone tool by chance but it takes more than luck to make a car or cell
phone. With the advance of nanoscience, the synthesis of increasingly sophisticated …

Guided hierarchical co-assembly of soft patchy nanoparticles

AH Gröschel, A Walther, TI Löbling, FH Schacher… - Nature, 2013‏ - nature.com
The concept of hierarchical bottom-up structuring commonly encountered in natural
materials provides inspiration for the design of complex artificial materials with advanced …

Reduced Graphene Oxide Conjugated Cu2O Nanowire Mesocrystals for High-Performance NO2 Gas Sensor

S Deng, V Tjoa, HM Fan, HR Tan… - Journal of the …, 2012‏ - ACS Publications
Reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-conjugated Cu2O nanowire mesocrystals were formed by
nonclassical crystallization in the presence of GO and o-anisidine under hydrothermal …

Self-assembly and applications of anisotropic nanomaterials: A review

K Thorkelsson, P Bai, T Xu - Nano Today, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Anisotropic nanoparticles are ideal building blocks for a variety of functional materials due to
their unique and anisotropic optical, electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties …

Self-assembly of uniform polyhedral silver nanocrystals into densest packings and exotic superlattices

J Henzie, M Grünwald, A Widmer-Cooper… - Nature materials, 2012‏ - nature.com
Understanding how polyhedra pack into extended arrangements is integral to the design
and discovery of crystalline materials at all length scales,,. Much progress has been made in …

Multidimensional hierarchical self-assembly of amphiphilic cylindrical block comicelles

H Qiu, ZM Hudson, MA Winnik, I Manners - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
Self-assembly of molecular and block copolymer amphiphiles represents a well-established
route to micelles with a wide variety of shapes and gel-like phases. We demonstrate an …