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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 34, Issue 23-24, Pages 1798-1814Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/marc.201300693
Keywords
colloidal clusters; depolarized dynamic light scattering; nanoparticle assemblies; polymer particles; supracolloids
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [SFB 840/A3]
- Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI)
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Anisometric polymer colloids are likely to behave differently when compared with centrosymmetric particles. Their study may not only shine new light on the organization of matter; they may also serve as building units with specific symmetries and complexity to build new materials from them. Polymer colloids of well-defined complex geometries can be obtained by packing a limited number of spherical polymer particles into clusters with defined configurations. Such supracolloidal architectures can be fabricated at larger scales using narrowly dispersed emulsion droplets as templates. Assemblies built from at least two different types of particles as elementary building units open perspectives in selective targeting of colloids with specific properties, aiming for mesoscale building blocks with tailor-made morphologies and multifunctionality. Polymer colloids with defined geometries are also ideal to study shape-dependent properties such as the diffusion of complex particles.
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