Normal and shear forces generated during the ordering (directed assembly) of confined straight and curved nanowires. Academic Article

abstract

• The effects of shape on nanowire interactions and shear-induced ordering were studied. Both the normal and lateral forces were sensitive to the particles' curvature. (i) No adhesion was observed between the confining surfaces, and the force profiles were short-ranged and mostly reversible for straight wires but longer-ranged and irreversible for curved wires. (ii) Structural phase transitions can occur in confined nanoparticle films. (iii) During shearing, straight wires order or align more easily than curved wires.

authors

• Akbulut, Mustafa

published proceedings

• Nano Lett

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Min, Y., Akbulut, M., Belman, N., Golan, Y., Zasadzinski, J., & Israelachvili, J.

citation count

• 20

complete list of authors

• Min, Younjin||Akbulut, Mustafa||Belman, Nataly||Golan, Yuval||Zasadzinski, Joe||Israelachvili, Jacob

publication date

• January 2008

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology  Journal

keywords

• Bioengineering
• Nanotechnology

PubMed Central ID

• 18069875

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/nl072553e

start page

• 246

end page

• 252

volume

• 8

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl072553e