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SUBMITTER: Centrone A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2453071 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Centrone A A Penzo E E Sharma M M Myerson J W JW Jackson A M AM Marzari N N Stellacci F F
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080710 29
Self-assembled monolayer-protected nanoparticles are promising candidates for applications, such as sensing and drug delivery, in which the molecular ligands' interactions with the surrounding environment play a crucial role. We recently showed that, when gold nanoparticles are coated with a binary mixture of immiscible ligands, ordered ribbon-like domains of alternating composition spontaneously form and that their width is comparable with the size of a single solvent molecule. It is usually as ...[more]