Advanced Inorganic Nanoarchitectures from Oriented Self-Assembly

• Published in: Advanced materials (Weinheim) Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 1096 - 1108
• Main Authors: Lu, Chenguang, Tang, Zhiyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Blackwell Publishing Ltd 10-02-2016
• Subjects: Anisotropy; Architecture; Attachment; ligands; Nanocrystals; Nanostructure; nanostructures; oriented attachments; Self assembly; ligands; self-assembly; oriented attachments; nanostructures; nanocrystals
• ISSN: 0935-9648; 1521-4095
• DOI: 10.1002/adma.201502869

Complex and well‐defined nanostructures are promising for emerging properties with broad applications. Self‐assembly processes driven by diverse interactions generate varied nanostructures by using versatile nanocrystals as building blocks, while oriented attachment growth allows individual nanocrystals to be integrated and fused into highly anisotropic structures. By a combination of self‐assembly technique and oriented attachment growth, many advanced nanostructures can be made. Such approaches can be viewed as an architecture of the nanoscale counterparts in the microworld, named as nanoarchitectures.
Oriented self‐assembly is a novel nanoarchitecture approach for advanced nanostructure fabrication. Combining self‐assembly and oriented attachment, highly anisotropic nanostructures can be designed and made with diverse yet tunable properties. This approach opens opportunities for various applications.