Abstract
We explore the potential of nanocrystals (a term used equivalently to nanoparticles) as building blocks for nanomaterials, and the current advances and open challenges for fundamental science developments and applications. Nanocrystal assemblies are inherently multiscale, and the generation of revolutionary material properties requires a precise understanding of the relationship between structure and function, the former being determined by classical effects and the latter often by quantum effects. With an emphasis on theory and computation, we discuss challenges that hamper current assembly strategies and to what extent nanocrystal assemblies represent thermodynamic equilibrium or kinetically trapped metastable states. We also examine dynamic effects and optimization of assembly protocols. Finally, we discuss promising material functions and examples of their realization with nanocrystal assemblies.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 14791-14840 |
| Number of pages | 50 |
| Journal | ACS Nano |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 23 |
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| Publication status | Published Online - 30 May 2024 |
Funding
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1748958 to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The biophysics part of this paper was supported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Grant No. 2919.02. CLB acknowledges the sponsorship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers, and the support of the Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI) and the EAM Starting Grant (EAM-SG23-1) of the Competence Center Engineering of Advanced Materials of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. CLB and ME acknowledge the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Project-ID 416229255-SFB 1411. The research of AT was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering. Iowa State University operates Ames National Laboratory for the U.S. DOE under Contract DE-AC02-07CH11358. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 American Chemical Society.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Materials Science
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy