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Self‐Assembly: Dynamic Self‐Assembly of Homogenous Microcyclic Structures Controlled by a Silver‐Coated Nanopore (Small 25/2017)
Author(s) -
Gao Rui,
Lin Yao,
Ying YiLun,
Liu XiaoYuan,
Shi Xin,
Hu YongXu,
Long YiTao,
Tian He
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770136
Subject(s) - nanopore , microscale chemistry , materials science , electrokinetic phenomena , nanotechnology , electrode , electrochemistry , diffusion , ion , self assembly , chemistry , physics , mathematics education , mathematics , organic chemistry , thermodynamics
In article number 1700234 , Yi‐Lun Ying, Yi‐Tao Long, and co‐workers, demonstrate that a well‐defined silver‐coated nanopore electrode acts as a “rocket” which can electrochemically manipulate silver ions diffused from the tiny opening of the nanopore. As a result, the confining electrochemical effect of the nanopore electrode guides the self‐assembly of AuNPs in the microscale highly homogeneously and with good reproducibility. The size distribution of the micro‐cyclic structures is consistent with the electrokinetic diffusion profile of silver ions.