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Order and progress

Nature Materials volume 15, pages 498–499 (2016)Cite this article

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Quantification of structural disorder and electron localization in superlattices of colloidal nanocrystals shows that minimizing variations in size and epitaxial connections is key to enhance the electronic properties of these materials.

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Figure 1: An atomically coherent 2D superlattice made by oriented attachment (red arrows) of PbSe nanocrystals (grey, Pb atoms; blue, Se atoms).

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