Assembly of shape-controlled nanocrystals by depletion attraction.

Marco Zanella, Giovanni Bertoni, Isabella R Franchini, Rosaria Brescia, Dmitry Baranov, Liberato Manna

Index: Chem. Commun. (Camb.) 47(1) , 203-5, (2011)

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Abstract

Recently (Baranov et al., Nano Lett., 2010, 10, 743) we demonstrated that depletion attraction between semiconductor nanorods in solution can be employed for both their self-assembly and their separation from spherical nanoparticles. Here we show that depletion attraction can be used to fabricate binary superlattices of nanorods and 3D networks of octapod/tetrapod-shaped nanocrystals.