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Chemical Communications

Co-assembly of shaped nanoparticles into a two-dimensional iso-tropic mesophase†

Bin Wang, ORCID logo a   James L. Young,b   Emily M. Infante,c   Alexander D. Fuqua, ORCID logo a   Diana Sánchez Ramírez,d   María Elena Garcia Celise  and  Andrea R. Tao ORCID logo *ac  

* Corresponding authors

a Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
E-mail: atao@ucsd.edu

b Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA

c Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92023, USA

d Centro de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 22860 Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

e Centro de Graduados e Investigación en Química, Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, Unidad Otay, Blvd. Industrial s/n, Cd Industrial, 22430 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

Abstract

Binary nanoparticle superlattices (BNSLs) enable the construction of new mesomaterials by combining the properties of two nanoparticle building blocks. We demonstrate two-dimensional (2D) BNSLs from silver nanocubes and gold nanospheres, analyzing their interparticle and orientational orders. Our experimental mesophase diagram identifies an isotropic phase that serves as a transition state to others.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC01661D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
17 Apr 2025
Accepted
04 Jun 2025
First published
13 Jun 2025

Chem. Commun., 2025,61, 10355-10358

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Co-assembly of shaped nanoparticles into a two-dimensional iso-tropic mesophase

B. Wang, J. L. Young, E. M. Infante, A. D. Fuqua, D. Sánchez Ramírez, M. E. Garcia Celis and A. R. Tao, Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 10355 DOI: 10.1039/D5CC01661D

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