Nanoparticles are commonly thought to be the fundamental building blocks for new devices. Spontaneous assembly of ordered chemically distinct subnanometre domains on the surface of gold nanoparticles may reduce the size of the fundamental building block even further.
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Braun, P. Spontaneous ligand organization. Nature Mater 3, 281–282 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1125
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