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Colloidal self-assembly

Superparticles get complex

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The assembly of hundreds of thousands of semiconductor nanorods into nearly spherical or needle-like colloidal superparticles made of highly ordered supercrystalline domains can be explained by simple thermodynamic and kinetic principles.

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Figure 1: Self-assembly of CdSe–CdS nanorods into complex superparticles1.

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  1. Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel

    Uri Banin

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 10025, New York, USA

    Amit Sitt

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