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Permanent Supracolloidal Biparticle Assembly Triggered by an Electric Field

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The colloidal assembly is a major route to making materials with tailored functionality resulting from the organization of the particles. While much attention has been focused on colloidal crystals with potential photonics applications, permanently bound linear structures are a somewhat overlooked material with a broad range of applications. For example, linear arrays of magnetic nanoparticles can be used as flexible whereas linear chains of polystyrene nanoparticles in polymer solution can cause interesting viscosity anomalies.

Modified from the article: Bharti, B., Findenegg, G. H., Velev, O. D., Sci. Rep., 2012, 2, 1004. Copyright 2012 Nature Publishing Group.

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Bharti, B. (2014). Permanent Supracolloidal Biparticle Assembly Triggered by an Electric Field. In: Adsorption, Aggregation and Structure Formation in Systems of Charged Particles. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07737-6_9

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