Bibliographic Citation
| 8,092,595 | |
| Self-assembly of water-soluble nanocrystals Loading...
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| 01/10/2012 | |
| US patent application 12/038,037 | |
| Fan, Hongyou (Albuquerque, NM); Brinker, C. Jeffrey (Albuquerque, NM); Lopez, Gabriel P. (Albuquerque, NM) | |
| Sandia National Laboratories | |
| USDOE | |
| AC04-94AL85000 | |
| Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM) | |
| A method for forming an ordered array of nanocrystals where a hydrophobic precursor solution with a hydrophobic core material in an organic solvent is added to a solution of a surfactant in water, followed by removal of a least a portion of the organic solvent to form a micellar solution of nanocrystals. A precursor co-assembling material, generally water-soluble, that can co-assemble with individual micelles formed in the micellar solution of nanocrystals can be added to this micellar solution under specified reaction conditions (for example, pH conditions) to form an ordered-array mesophase material. For example, basic conditions are used to precipitate an ordered nanocrystal/silica array material in bulk form and acidic conditions are used to form an ordered nanocrystal/silica array material as a thin film. | |
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