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ArticleACS nano2020

Leveraging Hierarchical Self-Assembly Pathways for Realizing Colloidal Photonic Crystals.

Abhishek B Rao, James Shaw, Andreas Neophytou, Daniel Morphew, Francesco Sciortino, Roy L Johnston, Dwaipayan Chakrabarti

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Article in ACS nano, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Abhishek B RaoSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
James ShawSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
Andreas NeophytouSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
Daniel MorphewSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
Francesco SciortinoDipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2418-2713
Roy L JohnstonSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4019-9280
Dwaipayan ChakrabartiSchool of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2939-2808
University of Birmingham · GBSapienza University of Rome · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Colloidal open crystals are attractive materials, especially for their photonic applications. Self-assembly appeals as a bottom-up route for structure fabrication, but self-assembly of colloidal open crystals has proven to be elusive for their mechanical instability due to being low-coordinated. For such a bottom-up route to yield a desired colloidal open crystal, the target structure is required to be thermodynamically favored for designer building blocks and also kinetically accessible

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colloidal self-assemblyhierarchical self-assemblypatchy particlesphotonic crystalstetrastack lattice

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PMID32374160
PMCPMC7304928
OpenAlexW3022908418

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