Issue 41, 2008
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Synthesis and assembly of nonspherical hollow silica colloids under confinement

Stephanie H. Lee,*a   Sharon J. Gerbode,b   Bettina S. John,c   Angie K. Wolfgang,b   Fernando A. Escobedo,c   Itai Cohenb  and  Chekesha M. Liddell*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
E-mail: hsl24@cornell.edu, cliddell@ccmr.cornell.edu

b Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

c Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Abstract

Hard peanut-shaped colloids were synthesized and organized into a degenerate crystal (DC), a phase previously observed only in simulations. In this structure, particle lobes tile a triangular lattice while their orientations uniformly populate the three underlying crystalline directions.

Graphical abstract: Synthesis and assembly of nonspherical hollow silica colloids under confinement

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B812406J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
18 Jul 2008
Accepted
18 Aug 2008
First published
22 Sep 2008

J. Mater. Chem., 2008,18, 4912-4916

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Synthesis and assembly of nonspherical hollow silica colloids under confinement

S. H. Lee, S. J. Gerbode, B. S. John, A. K. Wolfgang, F. A. Escobedo, I. Cohen and C. M. Liddell, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 4912 DOI: 10.1039/B812406J

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