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SUBMITTER: Qian Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8119732 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Qian Yiwen Y da Silva Alessandra A Yu Emmy E Anderson Christopher L CL Liu Yi Y Theis Wolfgang W Ercius Peter P Xu Ting T
Nature communications 20210513 1
Orthogonal to guided growth of nanoparticle (NP) crystals using DNA or supramolecules, a trace amount of polymeric impurities (<0.1 wt.%) leads to reproducible, rapid growth of 3D NP crystals in solution and on patterned substrates with high yield. When polymers preferentially precipitate on the NP surfaces, small NP clusters form and serve as nuclei for NP crystal growth in dilute solutions. This precipitation-induced NP crystallization process is applicable for a range of polymers, and the res ...[more]