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Letter

Nature Materials 8, 388–391 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nmat2421

Stepwise surface encoding for high-throughput assembly of nanoclusters

Mathew M. Maye , Dmytro Nykypanchuk , Marine Cuisinier , Daniel van der Lelie & Oleg Gang

Self-assembly offers a promising method to organize functional nanoscale objects into two-dimensional (2D) and 3D superstructures for exploiting their collective effects. On the other hand, many unique phenomena emerge after arranging a few nanoscale objects into clusters, the so-called artificial molecules.