{"title":"Illuminating pathways for nanoparticle superlattice self-assembly","authors":"Taylor J. Woehl","doi":"10.1038/s44286-024-00104-7","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The final structure of nanoparticle self-assembly intimately depends on the assembly pathway, which has remained obscure due to a lack of sufficiently high-spatiotemporal-resolution direct imaging approaches. Now, combining liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy with molecular dynamics simulations uncovers the complete dynamics of solvent-dependent assembly and phase transitions of nanocube superlattices.","PeriodicalId":501699,"journal":{"name":"Nature Chemical Engineering","volume":"1 8","pages":"504-505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Chemical Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-024-00104-7","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The final structure of nanoparticle self-assembly intimately depends on the assembly pathway, which has remained obscure due to a lack of sufficiently high-spatiotemporal-resolution direct imaging approaches. Now, combining liquid-cell transmission electron microscopy with molecular dynamics simulations uncovers the complete dynamics of solvent-dependent assembly and phase transitions of nanocube superlattices.