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Fabrication of Spherical and Worm-shaped Micellar Nanocrystals by Combining Electrospray, Self-assembly, and Solvent-based Structure Control
Published on: February 11, 2018
Ordered nanocrystal/silica particles self-assembled from nanocrystal micelles and silicate
Hongyou Fan1, John Gabaldon, C Jeffrey Brinker
1Chemical Synthesis and Nanomaterials Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA. hfan@sandia.gov
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 31, 2006
Abstract:
Ordered gold nanocrystal/silica particles were synthesized through self-assembly of nanocrystal micelles and silicate. Depending on the use of surfactants, and the kinetic conditions of silica hydrolysis and condensation, well-shaped and irregularly-shaped silica particles were formed, inside which the nanocrystals self-organized in a face-centered cubic mesostructure.
