Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Shape-dependent ordering of gold nanocrystals into large-scale superlattices

  • Jianxiao Gong,
  • Richmond S. Newman,
  • Michael Engel,
  • Man Zhao,
  • Fenggang Bian,
  • Sharon C. Glotzer,
  • Zhiyong Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14038
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Ordered self-assembly is a promising way to realize collective properties in nanocrystals, but reliable routes to such macroscopic structures are missing. Here the authors make cm-scale ordered superlattice films from gold nanoclusters, correlating film properties with the shape of the building blocks