Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages 4409-4413Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl302324b
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Self-assembly; PbS nanocubes; tilted face-centered-cubic; supercrystal; synchrotron X-ray scattering
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- General Motors LLC
- ADL at Binghamton University
- NSF [DMR-0731382, CHE-0840507]
- DOE STTR
- CrystalMaker Software Ltd.
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0936384]
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We demonstrate a direct fabrication of PbS nanocube supercrystals without size-selection pretreatment on the building blocks. Electron microscopic and synchrotron small angle X-ray scattering analyses confirm that nanocubes pack through a tilted face-centered-cubic (fcc) arrangement, that is, face-to-face along the < 110 >(super) direction, resulting in a real packing efficiency of as high as similar to 83%. This new type of superstructure consisting of nanocubes as building blocks, reported here for the first time, is considered the most stable surfactant-capped nanocube superstructure determined by far.
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