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Inside Back Cover: Directional Self‐Assembly of a Colloidal Metal–Organic Framework (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 23/2012)
Author(s) -
Yanai Nobuhiro,
Granick Steve
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201203243
Subject(s) - facet (psychology) , colloid , van der waals force , cover (algebra) , nanotechnology , self assembly , chemical physics , metal organic framework , materials science , crystallography , chemistry , molecule , engineering , organic chemistry , psychology , mechanical engineering , social psychology , personality , adsorption , big five personality traits
Directional self‐assembly with both positional and orientational order has been achieved by the self‐assembly of metal–organic framework (MOF) colloids. In their Communication on page 5638 ff., S. Granick and N. Yanai report the formation of well‐defined clusters and hexagonal arrangements by directional facet‐to‐facet attraction between colloidal MOF crystals through simple van der Waals interactions. This general method may lead to the cross‐fertilization of MOF and colloid sciences.