Issue 2, 2011
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Chemical Society Reviews

Self-assembly of inorganic nanorods†

Kun Liu,‡a   Nana Zhao‡a  and  Eugenia Kumacheva*abc  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
E-mail: ekumache@chem.utoronto.ca

b Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, 4 Taddle Creek Road, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada

c Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, 200 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E5, Canada

Abstract

Generation of nanostructures containing from several to thousands of inorganic nanorods (NRs) organized in a highly ordered manner paves the way for applications that exploit directional properties of NR arrays. Self-assembly of NRs provides a simple and cost-efficient strategy for producing NR ensembles. This tutorial review highlights recent advances in the field of NR synthesis, summarizes the types of ligands used for NR synthesis and stabilization, reviews experimental and theoretical work on NR self-assembly that is driven by interactions between the ligands and describes current properties and applications of self-assembled NR structures.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0CS00133C
Article type
Tutorial Review
Submitted
03 Oct 2010
First published
10 Jan 2011

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2011,40, 656-671

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