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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 40, Issue 11, Pages 5457-5471Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cs15059f
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- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2009CB930103]
- NSFC [21033005]
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Self-assembly is now being intensively studied in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials engineering and has become an important bottom-up approach to create intriguing structures for different applications. Self-assembly is not only a practical approach for creating a variety of nanostructures, but also shows great superiority in building hierarchical structures with orders on different length scales. The early work in self-assembly focused on molecular self-assembly in bulk solution, including the resultant dye aggregates, liposomes, vesicles, liquid crystals, gels and so on. Interfacial self-assembly has been a great concern over the last two decades, largely because of the unique and ingenious roles of this method for constructing materials at interfaces, such as self-assembled monolayers, Langmuir-Blodgett films, and capsules. Nanocrystal superlattices, honeycomb films and coffee rings are intriguing structural materials with more complex features and can be prepared by interfacial self-assembly on different length scales. In this critical review, we outline the recent development in the preparation and application of colloidal nanocrystal superlattices, honeycomb-patterned macroporous structures by the breath figure method, and coffee-ring-like patterns (247 references).
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