Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Collapsed polymer-directed synthesis of multicomponent coaxial-like nanostructures

  • Zhiqi Huang,
  • Yijing Liu,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Xiaoxia Chang,
  • Ang Li,
  • Lin Deng,
  • Chenglin Yi,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Niveen M. Khashab,
  • Jinlong Gong,
  • Zhihong Nie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12147
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Multicomponent colloidal nanostructures have topologically dependent chemical and physical properties, but are difficult to synthesise with high order complexity. Here, Nie and co-workers show a general and scalable route to synthesise such structures with unique coaxial-like construction.