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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 107, Issue 30, Pages 7441-7448Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp030013+
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Dodecanethiol-stabilized gold nanoparticles with similar average size organize into different superlattice structures depending upon the method of preparation of the nanocrystals. Particles synthesized by the inverse micelle technique preferentially assemble into face-centered cubic (fcc) structures with long-range translational and orientational ordering. Gold nanoparticles obtained by the solvated metal atom dispersion (SMAD) method behave like hard spheres and predominantly organize into hexagonal close-packed (hcp) nanocrystal superlattices with long-range translational ordering. Different packing behavior results from differences in nanoparticle core morphologies induced by the synthetic method; fcc ordering is preferred by single crystalline nanoparticles, while hcp is preferred by polycrystalline nanoparticles. A combination of optical microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM and HRTEM), selected area electron diffraction (SAED), atomic force microscopy (AFM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to characterize both the dispersed nanoparticles and the nanocrystal superlattices.
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