Publication
Title
Supracrystalline colloidal eggs : epitaxial growth and freestanding three-dimensional supracrystals in nanoscaled colloidosomes
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Abstract
The concept of template-confined chemical reactions allows the synthesis of complex molecules that would hardly be producible through conventional method. This idea was developed to produce high quality nanocrystals more than 20 years ago. However, template-mediated assembly of colloidal nanocrystals is still at an elementary level, not only because of the limited templates suitable for colloidal assemblies, but also because of the poor control over the assembly of nanocrystals within a confined space. Here, we report the design of a new system called supracrystalline colloidal eggs formed by controlled assembly of nanocrystals into complex colloidal supracrystals through superlattice-matched epitaxial overgrowth along the existing colloidosomes. Then, with this concept, we extend the supracrystalline growth to lattice-mismatched binary nanocrystal superlattices, in order to reach anisotropic superlattice growths, yielding freestanding binary nanocrystal supracrystals that could not be produced previously.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of the American Chemical Society. - Washington, D.C., 1879, currens
Publication
Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society , 2016
ISSN
0002-7863
DOI
10.1021/JACS.5B13235
Volume/pages
138 :10 (2016) , p. 3493-3500
ISI
000372477700034
Pubmed ID
26908091
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
ESTEEM 2 - Enabling science and technology through European electron microscopy.
SUPRANANO: From metal nanocrystal to supracrystal:crystallinity at nanometer and micrometer scales
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 21.03.2016
Last edited 09.10.2023
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