Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Self-regulated co-assembly of soft and hard nanoparticles

  • Yan Cui,
  • Hongyan Zhu,
  • Jiandong Cai,
  • Huibin Qiu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25995-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Colloidal self-assembly enables bottom-up manufacture of materials with designed hierarchies and functions. Here the authors develop a facile method to construct multidimensional colloidal architectures via the association of soft block copolymer micelles with simple unvarnished hard nanoparticles.