Nanoparticle-based crystal growth via multistep self-assembly
- Author(s)
- Qiang Zhou, Boyang Wang, Peijie Wang, Christoph Dellago, Yanting Wang, Yan Fang
- Abstract
Metal crystals are assumed to form through a combined process of Ostwald ripening and oriented attachment. Our experiments and simulations, however, indicate that metal crystals are grown in a multistep self-assembly process with metal nanoparticles as basic building blocks. The shapes of the intermediate dendritic structures are determined by the geometric and energetic features of the nanoparticles.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Capital Normal University, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
- Journal
- CrystEngComm
- Volume
- 15
- Pages
- 5114-5118
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 1466-8033
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ce40497h
- Publication date
- 2013
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103036 Theoretical physics, 103015 Condensed matter, 103029 Statistical physics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/54398264-b326-4878-871a-b90e12a41821