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SUBMITTER: Liu K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4822698 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100701 5988
Self-organization of nanoparticles is an efficient strategy for producing nanostructures with complex, hierarchical architectures. The past decade has witnessed great progress in nanoparticle self-assembly, yet the quantitative prediction of the architecture of nanoparticle ensembles and of the kinetics of their formation remains a challenge. We report on the marked similarity between the self-assembly of metal nanoparticles and reaction-controlled step-growth polymerization. The nanoparticles a ...[more]