Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Synthetic asters as elastic and radial skeletons

  • Qingqiao Xie,
  • Xixi Chen,
  • Tianli Wu,
  • Tiankuo Wang,
  • Yi Cao,
  • Steve Granick,
  • Yuchao Li,
  • Lingxiang Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13009-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Nanosystems capable of organisation and the formation of structures are of interest in nanotechnology. Here, the authors report on synthetic asters made of gemini surfactant which are able to position microparticles based on size and chemical composition which can also be organised into higher order structures.