Self-assembly of discotic liquid crystalline molecule-modified gold nanoparticles: control of 1D and hexagonal ordering induced by solvent polarity.
Gold nanoparticles fully coated with discotic liquid crystalline molecules of hexaalkoxy-substituted triphenylene (Au-TP) have been synthesised, the self-assembled structure of which could be controlled (hexagonal or 1D nanochain) just by altering the ratio of methanol to toluene in the solvent.
Yamada
Mami
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Department of Physical Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi-shi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan. myamada@jaist.ac.jp
Shen
Zhongrong
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Miyake
Mikio
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