Shape control of colloidal nanoparticles
Self assembled structures from colloidal particles have many applications in
biology, as chemical sensors and as photonic crystals. The control of shape
and valency of the colloidal particle is very important since it will
determine the 3D lattices of the assembled structure. There have been
several prior effort to fabricating particles with complex shapes. Most
particles with anisotropic shape are from the simple assembly of spheres or
the modification o
