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May 29, 2015

Engineering phase changes in nanoparticle arrays
Upton NY (SPX) May 29, 2015
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have just taken a big step toward the goal of engineering dynamic nanomaterials whose structure and associated properties can be switched on demand. In a paper appearing in Nature Materials, they describe a way to selectively rearrange the nanoparticles in three-dimensional arrays to produce different configurations, or phases, from the same nano-components. "One of the goals in nanoparticle self-assembly has been to crea ... read more

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