Self-assembly of anisotropic nanoparticles into functional superstructures

Chemical Society Reviews
Kerong DengZewei Quan

Abstract

Self-assembly of colloidal nanoparticles (NPs) into superstructures offers a flexible and promising pathway to manipulate the nanometer-sized particles and thus make full use of their unique properties. This bottom-up strategy builds a bridge between the NP regime and a new class of transformative materials across multiple length scales for technological applications. In this field, anisotropic NPs with size- and shape-dependent physical properties as self-assembly building blocks have long fascinated scientists. Self-assembly of anisotropic NPs not only opens up exciting opportunities to engineer a variety of intriguing and complex superlattice architectures, but also provides access to discover emergent collective properties that stem from their ordered arrangement. Thus, this has stimulated enormous research interests in both fundamental science and technological applications. This present review comprehensively summarizes the latest advances in this area, and highlights their rich packing behaviors from the viewpoint of NP shape. We provide the basics of the experimental techniques to produce NP superstructures and structural characterization tools, and detail the delicate assembled structures. Then the current understandin...Continue Reading

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
transmission electron microscopy
Scanning electron microscopy
electron
X-ray
electron diffraction
electron tomography
atomic force microscopy
chips
surface plasmon resonance
surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Software Mentioned

GIWAXS
GISAXS

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