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Nanoparticle ensembles

Nanocrystals come to order

Nature Materials volume 4, pages 364–365 (2005)Cite this article

The properties of most materials are intimately connected to the way in which they are ordered on the atomic scale. A new study suggests that in materials made from the regular three-dimensional arrangement of discrete nanocrystals, control of order and periodicity could be exploited at a whole new level.

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Brust, M. Nanocrystals come to order. Nature Mater 4, 364–365 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1380

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