This work is supported by the Max Planck Society.
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Decoration of Microspheres with Gold Nanodots—Giving Colloidal Spheres Valences†
Article first published online: 8 NOV 2005
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200502117
Copyright © 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
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How to Cite
Zhang, G., Wang, D. and Möhwald, H. (2005), Decoration of Microspheres with Gold Nanodots—Giving Colloidal Spheres Valences. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44: 7767–7770. doi: 10.1002/anie.200502117
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 28 NOV 2005
- Article first published online: 8 NOV 2005
- Manuscript Received: 17 JUN 2005
Keywords:
- colloids;
- gold;
- nanostructures;
- self-assembly
Giving directions: Microspheres are decorated with a defined number of Au nanodots by using O2-plasma-etched colloidal crystals as masks for the deposition of Au vapor (see picture). The Au nanodots deposited on the spheres might be considered as nanoscale analogues of sp-hybridized atomic orbitals, which may be used to spatially direct the association of spheres to generate hierarchical “supraparticles”.