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Nature Materials 2, 355 - 356 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat908

Inorganic materials: Nanocrystals branch out

Deli Wang1 & Charles M. Lieber1

  1. Deli Wang and Charles M. Lieber are at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

Correspondence to: Charles M. Lieber1 e-mail: cml@cmliris.harvard.edu


Inorganic colloids now come in many forms — spheres, discs and rods. With the addition of branched tetrapods to this list, the potential for creating materials with interesting mechanical, optical and electrical properties is even greater.

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