Supercrystalline Colloidal Particles from Artificial Atoms

• Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society Vol. 129; no. 46; pp. 14166 - 14167
• Main Authors: Zhuang, Jiaqi, Wu, Huimeng, Yang, Yongan, Cao, Y. Charles
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 21.11.2007

In this paper, we report an approach for using solvophobic interactions to synthesize well-defined colloidal superparticles from nonpolar-solvent-dispersible Fe3O4 nanoparticle artificial atoms. These colloidal superparticles possess a “single-supercrystal” structure, of which Fe3O4 artificial atoms...