Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems

Carlos L. Bassani; Greg van Anders; Uri Banin; Dmitry Baranov; Qian Chen; Marjolein Dijkstra; Michael S. Dimitriyev; Efi Efrati; Jordi Faraudo; Oleg Gang; Nicola Gaston; Ramin Golestanian; G. Ivan Guerrero-Garcia; Michael Gruenwald; Amir Haji-Akbari; Maria Ibáñez; Matthias Karg; Tobias Kraus; Byeongdu Lee; Reid C. Van Lehn; Robert J. Macfarlane; Bortolo M. Mognetti; Arash Nikoubashman; Saeed Osat; Oleg V. Prezhdo; Grant M. Rotskoff; Leonor Saiz; An Chang Shi; Sara Skrabalak; Ivan I. Smalyukh; Mario Tagliazucchi; Dmitri V. Talapin; Alexei V. Tkachenko; Sergei Tretiak; David Vaknin; Asaph Widmer-Cooper; Gerard C.L. Wong; Xingchen Ye; Shan Zhou; Eran Rabani; Michael Engel; Alex Travesset

doi:10.1021/acsnano.3c10201

Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems

Carlos L. Bassani, Greg van Anders, Uri Banin, Dmitry Baranov, Qian Chen, Marjolein Dijkstra, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Efi Efrati, Jordi Faraudo, Oleg Gang, Nicola Gaston, Ramin Golestanian, G. Ivan Guerrero-Garcia, Michael Gruenwald, Amir Haji-Akbari, Maria Ibáñez, Matthias Karg, Tobias Kraus, Byeongdu Lee, Reid C. Van LehnRobert J. Macfarlane, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Arash Nikoubashman, Saeed Osat, Oleg V. Prezhdo, Grant M. Rotskoff, Leonor Saiz, An Chang Shi, Sara Skrabalak, Ivan I. Smalyukh, Mario Tagliazucchi, Dmitri V. Talapin, Alexei V. Tkachenko, Sergei Tretiak, David Vaknin, Asaph Widmer-Cooper, Gerard C.L. Wong, Xingchen Ye, Shan Zhou, Eran Rabani, Michael Engel, Alex Travesset^*

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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
Pages (from-to)	14791-14840
Number of pages	50
Journal	ACS Nano
Volume	18
Issue number	23
Early online date	30 May 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c10201
Publication status	Published - 11 Jun 2024

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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-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. 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.

Funders	Funder number
Division of Physics
National Science Foundation	PHY-1748958
NSF	2919.02
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers
Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI)	EAM-SG23-1
EAM Starting Grant	416229255-SFB 1411
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE), Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering	DE-AC02-07CH11358
Iowa State University operates Ames National Laboratory for the U.S. DOE

Keywords

assembly protocols
colloidal crystal
material properties
nanocrystal
nanocrystal assembly
nanoparticle
quantum dots
self-assembly
structure prediction
superlattice

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Bassani, C. L., van Anders, G., Banin, U., Baranov, D., Chen, Q., Dijkstra, M., Dimitriyev, M. S., Efrati, E., Faraudo, J., Gang, O., Gaston, N., Golestanian, R., Guerrero-Garcia, G. I., Gruenwald, M., Haji-Akbari, A., Ibáñez, M., Karg, M., Kraus, T., Lee, B., ... Travesset, A. (2024). Nanocrystal Assemblies: Current Advances and Open Problems. ACS Nano, 18(23), 14791-14840. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c10201

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