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Nature Materials 4, 364 - 365 (2005)
doi:10.1038/nmat1380
Nanoparticle ensembles: Nanocrystals come to order
Mathias Brust1
- Mathias Brust is at the Centre for Nanoscale Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Oxford Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, UK. e-mail: m.brust@liverpool.ac.uk
Abstract
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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