Formation pathways of mesoporous silica nanoparticles with dodecagonal tiling
oleh: Yao Sun, Kai Ma, Teresa Kao, Katherine A. Spoth, Hiroaki Sai, Duhan Zhang, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Veit Elser, Ulrich Wiesner
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01 |
Deskripsi
Probing the growth pathways of quasicrystalline materials, where tiling units arrange with local but no long-range order, remains challenging. Here, the authors demonstrate that dodecagonal tiling of mesoporous silica nanoparticles occurs via irreversible packing of micelles with non-uniform size distribution.