Issue 12, 2008
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Chemical Communications

Nanocrystal-micelle: synthesis, self-assembly and application

Hongyou Fan*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Sandia National Laboratories, Advanced Materials Lab, 1001 University Blvd. SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87106, USA
E-mail: hfan@sandia.gov
Fax: +01 505-272-7336
Tel: +01 505-272-7128

b The University of New Mexico/NSF Center for Micro-Engineered Materials, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA

Abstract

Nanocrystals (NCs) are one of the important building blocks for fabrication of nanostructured arrays for wide range of optical, electronic, magnetic, catalytic and biosensing applications. Here, our recent advances in the synthesis, self-assembly and application of NC-micelles are highlighted. The NCs are encapsulated inside the core of surfactant micelles in a rapid, interfacially driven micro-emulsion process. The flexible surface chemistry of the NC-micelles causes them to be water-soluble and allows further self-assembly into two- and three-dimensional ordered arrays. The NC-micelles are biocompatible, of interest for bio-labeling. Finally, integration of the ordered arrays and charge transport property are discussed.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B711251N
Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
23 Jul 2007
Accepted
15 Nov 2007
First published
06 Dec 2007

Chem. Commun., 2008, 1383-1394

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