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Nature Materials 5, 85 - 86 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1572

Colloidal crystals: Plenty of room at the top

Daan Frenkel1

  1. Daan Frenkel is at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. e-mail: frenkel@amolf.nl

Binary mixtures of nanoparticles of different size and composition can self-assemble in a bewildering variety of lattices. This defies expectations and shows promise for the modular self-assembly of nano-sized building blocks into three-dimensional devices.

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