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Published on: October 16, 2017
Self-assembly of gold nanocubes into three-dimensional hollow colloidosomes and two-dimensional superlattices
Xuan Yue1, Xuejie Liu1, Nan Yan2
1State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China. nyan@ciac.ac.cn wjiang@ciac.ac.cn and University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Abstract:
Self-assembly of metal nanocubes (NCs) into periodic structures has applications in the fabrication of functional materials. Here, we propose a facile yet robust strategy for the fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) hollow colloidosomes and two-dimensional (2D) superlattices with highly ordered face-to-face configuration of gold NCs (AuNCs) via the hierarchical assembly of polymer-tethered AuNCs at the emulsion interface, providing a universal route for the preparation of hierarchical NC superstructures with applications in various fields.
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