Imaging the polymerization of multivalent nanoparticles in solution

Juyeong Kim; Zihao Ou; Matthew R. Jones; Xiaohui Song; Qian Chen

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00857-1

Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Imaging the polymerization of multivalent nanoparticles in solution

Juyeong Kim,
Zihao Ou,
Matthew R. Jones,
Xiaohui Song,
Qian Chen

Affiliations

Juyeong Kim: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
Zihao Ou: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
Matthew R. Jones: Department of Chemistry, Rice University
Xiaohui Song: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois
Qian Chen: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00857-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Few models exist that describe the spontaneous organization of colloids into materials. Here, the authors combine liquid-phase TEM and single particle tracking to observe the dynamics of gold nanoprisms, finding that nanoscale self-assembly can be understood within the framework of atomic polymerization.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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