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Title: Pressure-driven assembly of spherical nanoparticles and formation of 1D nanostructure arrays.

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1024460

External pressure was used to engineer nanoparticle assembly. Reversible manipulation of the unit-cell dimensions of a 3D ordered nanoparticle array under a hydrostatic pressure field enabled the fine-tuning of the interparticle distance. Under a uniaxial pressure field, nanoparticles were forced to contact and coalesce into nanorods or nanowires and ordered ultrahigh-density arrays (see picture; small arrows denote pressure).

Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
1024460
Report Number(s):
SAND2010-5725C; TRN: US201119%%393
Resource Relation:
Conference: Proposed for presentation at the ACS Fall National Meeting and Exposition held August 22-26, 2010 in Boston, MA.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English