title: Nanoparticle assemblies in thin films of supramolecular nanocomposites.
abstract: We demonstrated a versatile approach to obtain layered nanoparticle sheets with in-plane hexagonal order and 3-D ordered arrays of single nanoparticle chains in thin films upon blending nanoparticles with block copolymer (BCP)-based supramolecules. Basic understanding on the thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of the assembly process paved a path to manipulate these assemblies to meet demands in nanoparticle-based device fabrication and understand structure-property correlations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7118, USA.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Vivian P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Chuang
authors.forename: Zhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ercius
authors.forename: Ting
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Xu