Cover Picture: Harnessing Colloidal Crack Formation by Flow‐Enabled Self‐Assembly (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 16/2017). Issue 16 (6th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Li, Bo; Jiang, Beibei; Han, Wei; He, Ming; Li, Xiao; Wang, Wei; Hong, Suck Won; Byun, Myunghwan; Lin, Shaoliang; Lin, Zhiqun
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 56:Issue 16(2017)
• Page Start: 4363
• Page End: 4363
• Publication Date: 2017-03-06
• Subjects: colloidal particles -- cracks -- flow-enabled self-assembly -- microchannel; Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201702037
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

Abstract : Crack formation in a colloidal nanoparticle film can be harnessed by restricting the drying of the colloidal suspension using a flow‐enabled self‐assembly (FESA) strategy to yield large‐area periodic cracks (i.e., microchannels) with tunable spacing. In their Communication onpage 4554 ff., Z. Lin and co‐workers also show that these uniform microchannels can be utilized as a template to guide the assembly of Au nanoparticles, forming intriguing nanoparticle threads.