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1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. chrisli@drexel.edu.
Nanoscale
|March 27, 2014
Abstract:
We present a facile approach to synthesize "dumbbell" nanoparticle dimers via one-step coupling of nanoparticles and quasi-two-dimensional polymer single crystals. These dimers exhibit responsive properties enabled by flexible polymeric linkers.

