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Rational design of nanomaterials from assembly and reconfigurability of polymer-tethered nanoparticles

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Polymer-based nanomaterials have captured increasing interest over the past decades for their promising use in a wide variety of applications including photovoltaics, catalysis, optics, and energy storage. Bottom-up assembly engineering based on the self- and directed-assembly of polymer-based building blocks has been considered a powerful means to robustly fabricate and efficiently manipulate target nanostructures. Here, we give a brief review of the recent advances in assembly and reconfigurability of polymer-based nanostructures. We also highlight the role of computer simulation in discovering the fundamental principles of assembly science and providing critical design tools for assembly engineering of complex nanostructured materials.

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Research supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering under Award #DE-FG02-02ER46000.

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Marson, R.L., Nguyen, T.D. & Glotzer, S.C. Rational design of nanomaterials from assembly and reconfigurability of polymer-tethered nanoparticles. MRS Communications 5, 397–406 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2015.54

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