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Gold Nanoparticle Synthesis
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Liquid-crystalline phases made of gold nanoparticles
Michal Wojcik1, Wiktor Lewandowski, Joanna Matraszek
1Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Al. Zwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|June 5, 2009
Abstract:
Spontaneous formation of smectic and columnar structures was observed when spherical gold nanoparticles were functionalized with mesogenic thiols (see layered structure and X-ray pattern of a sample in smectic phase). The particle ordering is stimulated by softening of the interparticle potential and flexibility for deformation of the grafting layer.

