Assembly of silica rods into tunable branched living nanostructures mediated by coalescence of catalyst droplets

Branched nanostructures with tunable arm numbers were prepared through the assembly of silica rods mediated by coalescence of catalyst droplets on the end of the rods. The formed primary branched colloids retain living characteristics similar to the original ones, that is, they can further assemble...

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Published inChemical communications (Cambridge, England) Vol. 55; no. 30; pp. 4391 - 4394
Main Authors Cai, Chunhua, Ge, Yinbiao, Lin, Jiaping, Xu, Zhanwen, Gao, Hongbing, Xu, Wenheng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 09.04.2019
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Assembly
Catalysis
Catalysts
Chemical synthesis
Coalescing
Colloids
Droplets
Nanostructure
Nanostructures - chemistry
Nanotechnology - methods
Rods
Silicon dioxide
Silicon Dioxide - chemistry
Structural hierarchy
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Summary:Branched nanostructures with tunable arm numbers were prepared through the assembly of silica rods mediated by coalescence of catalyst droplets on the end of the rods. The formed primary branched colloids retain living characteristics similar to the original ones, that is, they can further assemble into multilevel and hierarchical branched structures.
ISSN:1359-7345
1364-548X
DOI:10.1039/c9cc00959k