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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
Self-assembly of amphiphilic nanocrystals
Luigi Carbone1, Liberato Manna, Carsten Sönnichsen
1Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Mainz, Jakob-Welder-Weg 11, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 21, 2009
Abstract:
Amphiphilic hybrid materials are formed from polymer-coated semiconductor nanoparticles that simulate a surfactant-like response (see picture). The strength and density of the surface coating are the key assembling forces driving a transition from single particles to cylindrical or vesicular superstructures.

