Can nonadditive dispersion forces explain chain formation of nanoparticles?

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Polarizability and alignment of dielectric nanoparticles in an external electric field: Bowls, dumbbells, and cuboids

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Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice

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Patchy from the bottom up

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Self-Assembly Enters the Design Era

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Nanoparticle Superlattice Engineering with DNA

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Many-Body van der Waals Interactions between Graphitic Nanostructures

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Self-assembly scenarios of patchy colloidal particles in two dimensions

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Directed Self-Assembly of Colloidal Dumbbells with an Electric Field

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Lock and key colloids

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Micelle and Vesicle Formation of Amphiphilic Nanoparticles

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Understanding interactions between capped nanocrystals: Three-body and chain packing effects

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Anisotropic self-assembly of spherical polymer-grafted nanoparticles

(2009) Pinar Akcora et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Synthesis and assembly of structured colloidal particles

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Van der Waals energy of a 1-dimensional lattice

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