Mesocrystals: structural and morphogenetic aspects.

Mesocrystals are a fascinating class of crystalline nanostructured materials since they combine the properties of nanoparticles with order on the microscopic or even macroscopic length scale. This tutorial review deals with the structural aspects of mesocrystals as well as their formation mechanisms known so far. The goal is to reach an understanding about what is special about the structuration principles of mesocrystals and their complex structures and what are the possibilities to control their formation processes.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Chemical Society Reviews

• Publication date

  2016-10-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1039/C6CS00208KPMID 27503260
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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