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A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles
But the process of turning nanoparticles into useful new materials has been hampered by the difficulty of controlling the number and direction of the links between each particle and its neighbors.
The approach could offer a more versatile way to create high-performing materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, agriculture, and more.
“People are interested in nanoparticle superlattices because of the promise of building designer materials where you have more say in what types of structures they can actually build into,” says Rob Macfarlane, the Richard P.
Simmons (1953) Professor in Metallurgy in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. “This is a new approach in nanoparticle assembly that hasn’t been investigated before.
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