The spontaneous organization of semiconductor nanoparticles into uniform pairs of parallel nanorods bridged at their ends illustrates the potential of hierarchical self-assembly processes for the formation of inorganic superstructures with complexity comparable to that of small self-organized biological aggregates.
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Yeom, B., Kotov, N. A loop of two rods. Nature Mater 13, 228–229 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3894
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